Hydrothermal jarosite and hematite in a pyroxene-hosted melt inclusion in martian meteorite Miller Range (MIL) 03346: Implications for magmatic-hydrothermal fluids on Mars

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 73, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 4907-4917

  McCubbin, Francis M ^a   Tosca, Nicholas J ^b   Smirnov, Alexander ^c   Nekvasil, Hanna ^a   Steele, Andrew ^c   Fries, Marc ^c   Lindsley, Donald H ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION; HEMATITE; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; JAROSITE; MAGMATISM; MARS; MARTIAN METEORITE; MELT INCLUSION; ORE-FORMING FLUID; OXIDATION; PLANETARY SURFACE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); PYROXENE; REACTION KINETICS; TEXTURE;

EID: 67650085127     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2009.05.031     Document Type: Article

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