An atlas of apatite and merrillite in martian meteorites: REE Geochemistry and a new tool for shergottite classificationOPEN ACCESS 

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Tahnee Burke, Andrew G. Tomkins, Zsanett Pinter, Andrew D. Langendam, Laura A. Miller MAPS, Version of Record online: 22 July 2025 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The phosphates, apatite and merrillite, are accessory phases in…

Origin of gabbroic shergottite Northwest Africa 6963 from an ~180-million-year-old flood basalt province on Mars

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James M. D. Day, Hunter R. Edwards, Kim Tait, Carl B. Agee MAPS, Version of Record online: 10 June 2025 LINK “To understand chemical variability within individual martian meteorites, we report major, minor, trace, and…

Source and parental melts of poikilitic shergottites: Implications for martian magmatism

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Evan W. O’Neal, A.M. Ostwald, A. Udry, J. Gross, M. Righter, T.J. Lapen, J. Darling, G.H. Howarth, R. Johnsen, D.R. McQuaig Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 30 March 2024 LINK “Martian…

Shock-induced H loss from pyroxene and maskelynite in a Martian meteorite and the mantle source δD of enriched shergottites

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J.-M. Dudley, A.H. Peslier, R.L. Hervig Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaAvailable online 28 October 2021 LINK “Assessing the water abundance and hydrogen isotopic signature (δD) of the Martian interior dictates our understanding of the formation of…

Dating martian mafic crust; microstructurally constrained baddeleyite geochronology of enriched shergottites Northwest Africa (NWA) 7257, NWA 8679 and ZagamiOPEN ACCESS 

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Leanne G. Staddon, James R. Darling, Winfried H. Schwarz, Natasha R. Stephen, Sheila Schuindt, Joseph Dunlop, Kimberly T. Tait Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaAvailable online 5 October 2021 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “Baddeleyite (monoclinic; m-ZrO2) is a…

Petrology of the enriched poikilitic shergottite Northwest Africa 10169: Insight into the martian interior

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Logan M. Combs, Arya Udry, Geoffrey H. Howarth, Minako Righter, Thomas J. Lapen, Juliane Gross, Daniel K. Ross, Rachel R. Rahib, James M.D. Day Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 9…

Chemical, microstructural and chronological record of phosphates in the Ksar Ghilane 002 enriched shergottite

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J. Roszjar, M.J. Whitehouse, K. Terada, K. Fukuda, T.John, A.Bischoff, Y.Morishita, H.Hiyagon Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta LINK “The enriched basaltic (martian) shergottite Ksar Ghilane (KG) 002, discovered in 2010, is exceptionally rich in coexisting but…

Pb evolution in the Martian mantle

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J.J. Bellucci, A.A. Nemchin, M.J. Whitehouse, J.F. Snape, P. Bland, G.K. Benedix, J. Roszjarc Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 485, 1 March 2018, Pages 79–87 LINK “Highlights • A model for the evolution of…

Evaluating Crustal Contributions to Enriched Shergottites from the Petrology, Trace Elements, and Rb-Sr and Sm-Nd Isotope Systematics of Northwest Africa 856

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J. Ferdous, A.D. Brandon, A.H. Peslier, Z. Pirotte Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 29 May 2017 LINK “The origin of the incompatible trace element (ITE) characteristics of enriched shergottites has…

Crystallization history of enriched shergottites from Fe and Mg isotope fractionation in olivine megacrysts

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Max Collinet, Bernard Charlier, Olivier Namur, Martin Oeser, Etienne Médard, Stefan Weyer Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 30 March 2017 LINK “Martian meteorites are the only samples available from the…

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