Northwest Africa 10414, a pigeonite cumulate shergottite
R.H. Hewins, B. Zanda, S. Pont, P.‐M. Zanetta Meteoritics & Planetary Science First Published: 11 August 2019 LINK “Northwest Africa (NWA) 10414 is an unusual shergottite with a cumulate texture. It contains 73% coarse prismatic…
Isotopic evolution of the protoplanetary disk and the building blocks of Earth and the Moon
Martin Schiller, Martin Bizzarro & Vera Assis Fernandes Nature volume 555, pages 507–510 (22 March 2018) doi:10.1038/nature25990 LINK “Nucleosynthetic isotope variability among Solar System objects is often used to probe the genetic relationship between meteorite…
Trace elements in olivine and the petrogenesis of the intermediate, olivine-phyric shergottite NWA 10170.
Howarth, G. H. and Udry, A. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12799 LINK “Olivine-phyric shergottites represent primitive basaltic to picritic rocks, spanning a large range of Mg# and olivine abundances. As primitive olivine-bearing magmas are…
Effect of chlorine on near-liquidus crystallization of olivine-phyric shergottite NWA 6234 at 1 GPa: Implication for volatile-induced melting of the Martian mantle.
Farcy, B. J., Gross, J., Carpenter, P., Hicks, J. and Filiberto, J. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12662 LINK “Martian magmas are thought to be rich in chlorine compared with their terrestrial counterparts. Here, we…