Enigmatic Glass-Like Carbon from the Alpine Foreland, Southeast Germany: A Natural Carbonization Process

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    摘要 Unusualcarbonaceousmatter,termedherechiemite,composedofmorethan90%CfromtheAlpineForelandatLakeChiemseeinBavaria,southeasternGermanyhasbeeninvestigatedusingopticalandatomicforcemicroscopy,X-rayfluorescencespectroscopy,scanningandtransmissionelectronmicroscopy,high-resolutionRamanspectroscopy,X-raydiffractionanddifferentialthermalanalysis,aswellasbyδ13Cand14Cradiocarbonisotopicdataanalysis.Inthepumice-likefragments,poorlyorderedcarbonmatterco-existswithhigh-orderingmonocrystallineα-carbyne,andcontainssubmicrometer-sizedinclusionsofcomplexcomposition.Diamondandcarbyneaddtothepeculiarmixofmatter.TherequiredveryhightemperaturesandpressuresforcarbyneformationpointtoashockeventprobablyfromtherecentlyproposedHoloceneChiemgaumeteoriteimpact.Thecarbonmaterialissuggestedtohavelargelyformedfromheavilyshockedcoal,vegetationlikewood,andpeatfromtheimpacttargetarea.Thecarbonization/coalificationhighPTprocessmaybeattributedtoastrongshockthatinstantaneouslycausedthecompleteevaporationandlossofvolatilematterandwater,whichneverthelesspreservedtheoriginalcellularstructureseenfossilizedinmanyfragments.Relativelyfreshwoodencapsulatedinthepurportedstronglyshockedmatterpointtoquenchedcarbonmeltcomponentspossiblyimportantforthediscussionofsurvivaloforganicmatterinmeteoriteimpacts,implyinganastrobiologicalrelationship.
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    出处 《地质学报:英文版》 2018年6期
    出版日期 2018年06月16日(中国Betway体育网页登陆平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)
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