Natural Fe-bearing oxides and sulfates from the Rio Tinto Mars analog site: Critical assessment of VNIR reflectance spectroscopy, laser Raman spectroscopy, and XRD as mineral identification tools

American Mineralogist

Volumn 99, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1199-1205

  Sobron, Pablo ^a,b   Bishop, Janice L ^a,c   Blake, David F ^c   Chen, Bin ^c   Rull, Fernando ^d  

^a SETI INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MalaUva Labs   (United States)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d Parcela 203   (Spain)

Author keywords

Analog; Iron; Mars; Raman; Rio Tinto; Sulfates; VNIR reflectance; XRD

Indexed keywords

INFRARED DEVICES; IRON; IRON OXIDES; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; REFLECTION; SULFATE MINERALS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ANALOG; MARS; RAMAN; RIO TINTO; SULFATES;

IRON METALLOGRAPHY;

IRON; MARS; MINERALOGY; NATURAL ANALOG; OXIDE; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SULFATE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

ANDALUCIA; HUELVA [ANDALUCIA]; RIO TINTO [(TWN) HUELVA]; SPAIN;

EMMELICHTHYIDAE;

EID: 84907003218     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: 19453027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am.2014.4595     Document Type: Article

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