Direct determination of europium valence state by XANES in extraterrestrial merrillite: Implications for REE crystal chemistry and martian magmatism

American Mineralogist

Volumn 96, Issue 8-9, 2011, Pages 1418-1421

  Shearer, C K ^a   Papike, J J ^a   Burger, P V ^a   Sutton, S R ^b,c   Mc Cubbin, F M ^a   Newville, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Europium; Martian basalts; Merrillite; REE; XANES

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY; TRACE ELEMENTS;

COUPLED SUBSTITUTION; DIRECT DETERMINATION; ISOTOPIC VARIATIONS; MAGMATIC SYSTEMS; MARTIAN MAGMATISM; MERRILLITE; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; XANES;

EUROPIUM;

BASALT; EUROPIUM; MAGMATISM; MARS; PLANETARY SURFACE; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SUBSTITUTION; XANES SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 80052928084     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: 19453027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am.2011.3860     Document Type: Article

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