Searching for the source regions of martian meteorites using MGS TES: Integrating martian meteorites into the global distribution of igneous materials on Mars

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 871-885

  Hamilton, Victoria E ^a   Christensen, Philip R ^b   McSween Jr , Harry Y ^c   Bandfield, Joshua L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUST; IGNEOUS ROCK; LITHOLOGY; MARS; MARTIAN METEORITE; SOURCE PARAMETERS;

EID: 0142204859     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2003.tb00284.x     Document Type: Article

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