A Time-Resolved Paleomagnetic Record of Main Group Pallasites: Evidence for a Large-Cored, Thin-Mantled Parent Body
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jats:titleAbstract</jats:title>jats:pSeveral paleomagnetic studies have been conducted on five Main Group pallasites: Brenham, Marjalahti, Springwater, Imilac, and Esquel. These pallasites have distinct cooling histories, meaning that their paleomagnetic records may have been acquired at different times during the thermal evolution of their parent body. Here, we compile new and existing data to present the most complete time‐resolved paleomagnetic record for a planetesimal, which includes a period of quiescence prior to core solidification as well as dynamo activity generated by compositional convection during core solidification. We present new paleomagnetic data for the Springwater pallasite, which constrains the timing of core solidification. Our results suggest that in order to generate the observed strong paleointensities (∼65–95 μT), the pallasites must have been relatively close to the dynamo source. Our thermal and dynamo models predict that the Main Group pallasites originate from a planetesimal with a large core (>200 km) and a thin mantle (<70 km).</jats:p>
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Funder: FP7 Ideas: European Research Council (FP7 Ideas); Id: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100011199; Grant(s): 320750, 312284
Funder: NASA Solar Systems Workings program
Funder: The Geological Society
Funder: Mineralogical Society of Great Britain
Funder: Mineral Physics Group of Great Britain
Funder: Jesus College Cambridge
Funder: Royal Astronomical Society; Id: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000698
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2169-9100