Abstract

Samples of the Murchison meteorite (carbonaceous chondrite, type CM2) were kept isothermally in a specially designed device at temperatures of 200, 500 and 800°C. After the samples cooled down in an inert helium atmosphere, Raman scattering spectra were taken. An increase in the intensity of the G- and D-lines of graphite was detected depending on the degree of heating. It is shown that using such a characteristic parameter of these lines as the area ratio, SD/SG, it is possible to define a geothermometer to determine the maximum temperature of thermal metamorphism of the parent bodies of carbonaceous chondrites. A comparison with the known data for carbonaceous chondrite Allende (CM3), which has experienced a significant thermal metamorphism, is carried out.

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