FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI A 4,565-My-old andesite from an extinct chondritic protoplanet BT AF Barrat, Jean-Alix Chaussidon, Marc Yamaguchi, Akira Beck, Pierre Villeneuve, Johan Byrne, David J. Broadley, Michael W. Marty, Bernard AS 1:1;2:2;3:3;4:4;5:5;6:5;7:5;8:5; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:;8:; C1 Univ Brest, CNRS, IRD, Ifremer, LEMAR, F-29280 Plouzané, France Institut de physique du globe de Paris, CNRS, Université de Paris, F-75005 Paris, France National Institute of Polar Research, Tachikawa, Tokyo 190-8518, Japan CNRS, Institut de Planetologie et d’Astrophysique de Grenoble, F-38400 Saint Martin d'Hères, France Université de Lorraine, CNRS, CRPG, F-54000 Nancy, France C2 UBO, FRANCE CNRS, FRANCE NIPR, JAPAN CNRS, FRANCE UNIV LORRAINE, FRANCE UM LEMAR IN WOS Cotutelle UMR copubli-france copubli-univ-france copubli-int-hors-europe IF 12.779 TC 36 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00685/79674/82450.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00685/79674/82451.pdf LA English DT Article DE ;andesitic magmatism;early solar system;planetary differentiation;differentiated meteorites AB The age of iron meteorites implies that accretion of protoplanets began during the first millions of years of the solar system. Due to the heat generated by 26Al decay, many early protoplanets were fully differentiated with an igneous crust produced during the cooling of a magma ocean and the segregation at depth of a metallic core. The formation and nature of the primordial crust generated during the early stages of melting is poorly understood, due in part to the scarcity of available samples. The newly discovered meteorite Erg Chech 002 (EC 002) originates from one such primitive igneous crust and has an andesite bulk composition. It derives from the partial melting of a noncarbonaceous chondritic reservoir, with no depletion in alkalis relative to the Sun’s photosphere and at a high degree of melting of around 25%. Moreover, EC 002 is, to date, the oldest known piece of an igneous crust with a 26Al-26Mg crystallization age of 4,565.0 million years (My). Partial melting took place at 1,220 °C up to several hundred kyr before, implying an accretion of the EC 002 parent body ca. 4,566 My ago. Protoplanets covered by andesitic crusts were probably frequent. However, no asteroid shares the spectral features of EC 002, indicating that almost all of these bodies have disappeared, either because they went on to form the building blocks of larger bodies or planets or were simply destroyed. PY 2021 PD MAR SO Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America SN 0027-8424 PU Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences VL 118 IS 11 UT 000629635100094 DI 10.1073/pnas.2026129118 ID 79674 ER EF