Interpretation of reflectance spectra of clay mineral-silica mixtures:Implications for Martian clay mineralogy at Mawrth Vallis

Clays and Clay Minerals

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 400-415

  McKeown, Nancy K ^a,g   Bishop, Janice L ^b   Cuadros, Javier ^c   Hillier, Stephen ^d   Amador, Elena ^a   Makarewicz, Heather D ^e   Parente, Mario ^f   Silver, Eli A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SETI INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^d SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^e University of Kansas   (United States)

^f Stanford University   (United States)

^g MACEWAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

CRISM; Mars; Mawrth Vallis; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CLAY MINERALOGY; COMPACT RECONNAISSANCE; CRISM; EQUIVALENT-LINEAR; GAUSSIAN MODELING; HYDROTHERMALLY; ILLITE-SMECTITE; IMAGING SPECTROMETERS; INFLECTION POINTS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LINEAR MIXTURES; LONG WAVELENGTH; MARS; MAWRTH VALLIS; MULTIPLE COMPONENTS; REFLECTANCE SPECTRUM; ROCK UNITS; SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS; SPECTRAL CHARACTERS; SPECTRAL MATCH; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCES; STRONG CORRELATION;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; GLASS; KAOLIN; KAOLINITE; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; REFLECTION; SILICA; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROSCOPY;

BINARY MIXTURES;

CLAY MINERAL; ILLITE; KAOLINITE; MARS; MINERALOGY; MONTMORILLONITE; SILICA; SMECTITE; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE;

EID: 81355132640     PISSN: 00098604     EISSN: 15528367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1346/CCMN.2011.0590404     Document Type: Article

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