Laboratory studies of vacuum dehydration of Mg-O-H units in minerals and rocks reveal large kinetic isotope effects in oxygen, with light-isotope enrichment in the liberated water, and concomitant heavy-isotope enrichment in the residual solids. Application of the same techniques to a meteorite assemblage including hydrous magnesium silicates shows a much more complex behavior, probably due to isotopic heterogeneity inherited from processes on the meteorite parent body. Measurements of both the (17)O/(16)O variations and the (18)O/(16)O variations confirm theoretical predictions that slopes of three-isotope correlation lines are systematically larger for equilibrium isotope effects than for kinetic isotope effects.
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