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The majority of the ~143 ureilite meteorites are monomict (unbrecciated) ultramafic rocks, which represent the mantle (olivine+low-Ca pyroxene residues and less abundant cumulates) of a partially melted (~25-30%), carbon-rich asteroid >=125km in radius. Accumulated petrologic and geochemical studies of these meteorites have led to a picture of a ureilite parent body (UPB) that was stratified in mg#, pyroxene abundance and pyroxene type, due to the pressure dependence of carbon redox control, and which preserved a pre-magmatic heterogeneity in @D^1^7O. The absence, however, of ureilitic crustal rocks (i.e. basalts) in the meteorite record, leads to significant gaps in our knowledge of the geologic history of the UPB. Ureilitic breccias provide considerable information that cannot be obtained from the monomict samples, and help to fill in those gaps. Fourteen ureilites are polymict breccias (at least three of which contain solar wind gases) that formed in a regolith. They contain a variety of clast types representing indigenous ureilitic lithologies not known among the monomict samples, as well as several types of non-indigenous impactor materials. In addition, one ureilite (FRO 93008) is a dimict breccia, consisting of two ultramafic lithologies that could not have formed in close proximity on the UPB. Several feldspathic lithologies representing melts complementary to the monomict ureilite residues or cumulates have been recognized in polymict ureilites. From these lithologies we infer that melt extraction on the UPB was a rapid, fractional process in which trace element and oxygen isotopic equilibrium was not achieved. The majority of melts that reached the surface erupted explosively (due to high contents of CO/CO”2) and were lost into space. Thus, it is likely that the UPB never had an extensive basaltic crust. Melts generated at the shallowest depths and late fractionates, in which carbon had largely been consumed by reduction, were the most likely to have been preserved. Our sample of the UPB is limited to depths equivalent to ~100 bars pressure or less, but minor augite-bearing feldspathic lithologies and related cumulates may represent melts derived from deeper. In addition, we infer that the UPB was catastrophically disrupted, while still hot, by an impacting projectile. Meter-sized ejecta from this impact reaccreted into one or more daughter bodies, on which the brecciated ureilites formed. Ureilite meteorites are derived from these offspring, rather than from the UPB. The remnant of the original UPB may consist largely of olivine plus augite, and thus not resemble the majority of ureilites.
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