日本地球惑星科学連合2019年大会

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[M-IS23] 惑星火山学

2019年5月27日(月) 17:15 〜 18:30 ポスター会場 (幕張メッセ国際展示場 8ホール)

コンビーナ:野口 里奈(宇宙航空研究開発機構 宇宙科学研究所)、諸田 智克(名古屋大学大学院環境学研究科)、片岡 香子(新潟大学災害・復興科学研究所)、大槻 静香(産業技術総合研究所 活断層・火山研究部門)

[MIS23-P04] Disequilibrium precipitation of salts during rapid freezing of brine: Implications for cryovolcanisms and formation of sodium carbonate of bright spots on Ceres.

*依田 優大1,2関根 康人2丹 秀也1,2 (1.東京大学理学系研究科地球惑星科学専攻、2.東京工業大学 地球生命研究所)

キーワード:氷火山、セレス、熱化学平衡

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has found geological evidence for cryovolcanoes on Ceres, the dwarf planet in the main belt. Erupted materials from Ceres’ cryovolcanoes are generally bright and distribute locally over Ceres in association with floor-fractured craters and dome-like features, which have young surface ages (e.g., Buczkowski et al, 2016; Ruesch et al, 2016). The bright materials are considered to be composed mainly of sodium carbonate and ammonium salts, which are different from the average crustal compositions (a mixture of magnesium-calcium carbonates and ammonia phyllosilicates) (De Sanctis, 2016; Zambon et al, 2016). The particular compositions of bright materials could provide unique information on the formation and evolution of liquid reservoirs within Ceres.

Two possible processes have been proposed for the formation of liquid reservoirs that generate Ceres’ bright spots: One is remnants of a global subsurface ocean formed in the early history of Ceres (Castillo-Rogez et al, 2018), and the other is impact-induced melting of surface materials in a recent time (Zolotov, 2017). Using thermochemical equilibrium models, Castillo-Rogez et al. (2018) suggest that freezing of an early global ocean on Ceres may not be able to generate salt materials found on bright spots. To account for the abundance and composition of salts on bright spots, Zolotov (2017) suggests extremely high concentrations of dissolved ions in localized liquid reservoirs, possibly generated by re-melting of surface due to a recent impact. These equilibrium models suggest the difficulty to form the salt compositions of the bright spots directly from freezing of an early global ocean. However, Vu et al. (2017) and Thomas et al. (2018) experimentally show the importance of kinetics in salt precipitation from rapidly freezing brine. Thomas et al. (2018) show kinetically preference of precipitation of ammonia-bearing salts upon rapid freezing of Na-NH4-CO3-Cl brine despite their thermochemical instability. This implies the disequilibria in salt precipitation may have played a key role to determine the salt composition of bright spots.

In the present study, we compare the results of salt precipitation using thermochemical equilibrium model of FREZCHEM with those formed by rapid freezing in laboratory experiments to evaluate the effects of disequilibria. The starting solutions are prepared based on thermochemical calculations of water-rock reactions within early Ceres. We also measure infrared spectra of the salt precipitates to compare with the observations of bright spots on Ceres.