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…

The stable Zr isotope composition of the martian mantleOPEN ACCESS 

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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…

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…

Isotopic evolution of the protoplanetary disk and the building blocks of Earth and the Moon

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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…

Petrogenesis of the NWA 7320 enriched martian gabbroic shergottite: Insight into the martian crust

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Arya Udry, Geoffrey H. Howarth, Thomas J. Lapen, Minako Righter Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 30 January 2017 LINK “Northwest Africa (NWA) 7320 is classified as a gabbroic shergottite, the…

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