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Misawa, Keji; Kohno, Mika; Tomiyama, Takayuki; Noguchi, Takaaki; Nakamura, Tomoki; Nagao, Keisuke; Mikouchi, Takashi; Nishiizumi, Kunihiko (2010): Isotopic ratios, concentration of noble gases and mineral and bulk composition of extraterrestrial dust particles in Dome Fuji ice core, East Antarctica [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.848893, Supplement to: Misawa, K et al. (2010): Two extraterrestrial dust horizons found in the Dome Fuji ice core, East Antarctica. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 289(1-2), 287-297, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2009.11.016

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Abstract:
Two silicate-rich dust layers were found in the Dome Fuji ice core in East Antarctica, at Marine Isotope Stages 12 and 13. Morphologies, textures, and chemical compositions of constituent particles reveal that they are high-temperature melting products and are of extraterrestrial origin. Because similar layers were found ~2000 km east of Dome Fuji, at EPICA (European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica)-Dome C, particles must have rained down over a wide area 434 and 481 ka. The strewn fields occurred over an area of at least 3 × 10**6 km**2. Chemical compositions of constituent phases and oxygen isotopic composition of olivines suggest that the upper dust layer was produced by a high-temperature interaction between silicate-rich melt and water vapor due to an impact explosion or an aerial burst of a chondritic meteoroid on the inland East Antarctic ice sheet. An estimated total mass of the impactor, on the basis of particle flux and distribution area, is at least 3 × 10**9 kg. A possible parent material of the lower dust layer is a fragment of friable primitive asteroid or comet. A hypervelocity impact of asteroidal/cometary material on the upper atmosphere and an explosion might have produced aggregates of sub-µm to µm-sized spherules. Total mass of the parent material of the lower layer must exceed 1 × 10**9 kg. The two extraterrestrial horizons, each a few millimeters in thickness, represent regional or global meteoritic events not identified previously in the Southern Hemisphere.
Project(s):
Priority Programme 1158 Antarctic Research with Comparable Investigations in Arctic Sea Ice Areas (SPP1158)
Funding:
German Research Foundation (DFG), grant/award no. 5472008: Priority Programme 1158 Antarctic Research with Comparable Investigations in Arctic Sea Ice Areas
Coverage:
Latitude: -77.316670 * Longitude: 39.666670
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0)
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  1. Misawa, K; Kohno, M; Tomiyama, T et al. (2010): (Table 3) Oxygen isotopic concentrations for olivines in particles from the DF2641 layer (Dome Fuji ice core). https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.848890
  2. Misawa, K; Kohno, M; Tomiyama, T et al. (2015): (Table 4) Noble gas concentrations and He, Ne, Ar, Kr, and Xe isotopic ratios for three particles from the DF2641 layer (Dome Fuji ice core). https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.848891
  3. Misawa, K; Kohno, M; Tomiyama, T et al. (2010): (Table 1) Representative analyses of olivine, mesostasis, and magnetite in DF2641 particles (Dome Fuji ice core). https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.848888
  4. Misawa, K; Kohno, M; Tomiyama, T et al. (2010): (Appendix A) Volumetric concentration of particles in the Dome Fuji ice core (depths of 2641.50 to 2641.92 m). https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.848892
  5. Misawa, K; Kohno, M; Tomiyama, T et al. (2010): (Table 2) Bulk analytical data for Dome Fuji silicate-rich particles. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.848889