Martian magmas contained abundant chlorine, but little water

Geology

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1087-1090

  Filiberto, Justin ^a,b   Treiman, Allan H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE CONTENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; MANTLE SOURCE; MARTIAN METEORITES; SURFACE ENVIRONMENTS; VOLATILE SPECIES; WATER CYCLE;

BASALT; CHLORINE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; IGNEOUS ROCKS; METEORITES; MINERALS; PHOSPHATE MINERALS;

EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY;

AMPHIBOLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHLORINE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DEGASSING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MAGMA; MANTLE SOURCE; MARTIAN METEORITE; MINERALOGY; PLANETARY SURFACE; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 72149096273     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G30488A.1     Document Type: Article

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