Are oxidized shergottite-like basalts an alternative to "andesite" on Mars?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 18, 2003, Pages

  Hamilton, Victoria E ^a   Minitti, Michelle E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BASALT; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; OXIDATION; DECONVOLUTION; METEORITES; MINING;

THERMAL EMISSION SPECTRA; DECONVOLUTION ALGORITHM; EMISSION SPECTRUMS; MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR; MARTIAN METEORITES; PRIMARY SURFACE; REFLECTANCE SPECTRUM; THERMAL EMISSION SPECTROMETERS; THERMAL EMISSIONS;

GEOPHYSICS; OXIDATION;

BASALT; MARS; METEORITE; MINERALOGY; OXIDATION; PLANETARY SURFACE; SHERGOTTITE;

EID: 0346281623     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017839     Document Type: Article

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