Oxygen fugacity in the Martian mantle controlled by carbon: New constraints from the nakhlite MIL 03346

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1709-1723

  Righter, Kevin ^a   Yang, H ^b   Costin, G ^b   Downs, R T ^b  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

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EID: 59649107133     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2008.tb00638.x     Document Type: Article

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