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Martian differentiation history inferred from copper isotopesOPEN ACCESS

21/10/2025 17:53 · by karmaka · in differentiation, Mars, martian, planets/planetesimals

De-Liang Wang, Dan Zhu, Ying-Kui Xu, Shui-Jiong Wang, Shi-Jie Li, Zi-Ru Liu, Yang Li, Zhi Li, Hong Tang, Xiong-Yao Li & Jian-Zhong Liu Nature Communications, Volume 16, article number 9298, Published: 21 October 2025 LINK…

Feasibility of in situ K-Ar isochron dating on Mars: assessment using the mineralogy of Martian meteoritesOPEN ACCESS

07/08/2025 14:34 · by karmaka · in Mars, nakhlite, radiometric dating, shergottite, space missions

Hikaru Hyuga, Yuichiro Cho, Yayoi N. Miura, Takashi Mikouchi, Seiji Sugita MAPS, Version of Record online: 07 August 2025 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Dating rocks with a 2σ precision of 200 Ma is required to…

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

22/07/2025 18:03 · by karmaka · in achondrite classification, ALH 84001, analysis techniques, chassignite, martian, nakhlite, NWA 7034 (basaltic breccia), shergottite, Tissint

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…

The stable Zr isotope composition of the martian mantleOPEN ACCESS

29/04/2025 13:38 · by karmaka · in chassignite, Mars, martian, nakhlite, NWA 7034 (basaltic breccia), shergottite

Ninna K. Jensen, Zhengbin Deng, Martin Bizzarro Chemical Geology, available online 26 April 2025, 12281 LINK + PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We report high-precision stable Zr isotope data for a wide selection of martian meteorites using…

Analytical capability of K-Ar isochron dating on Mars: assessment from mineral compositions of Martian meteoritesOPEN ACCESS

21/06/2023 08:00 · by karmaka · in analysis techniques, martian, nakhlite, shergottite

Hikaru Hyuga, Yuichiro Cho, Seiji Sugita PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Many in situ potassium-argon (K-Ar) dating instruments under development use laser ablation to perform local analyses of several hundred um on rocks. Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS)…

Quantitative in situ XRD measurement of shock metamorphism in Martian meteorites using lattice strain and strain‐related mosaicity in olivine

07/02/2019 17:54 · by karmaka · in martian, nakhlite, shergottite, shock metamorphism

Laura E. Jenkins, Roberta L. Flemming, Phil J. A. McCausland Meteoritics & Planetary Science First Published: 6 February 2019 LINK “All Martian meteorites have experienced shock metamorphism to some degree. We quantitatively determined shock‐related strain…

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

31/03/2017 07:09 · by karmaka · in martian, shergottite

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…