Most basaltic shergottites are too Mg-rich to represent parent melt compositions because they contain some cumulus pyroxenes. However, basaltic shergottite Northwest Africa(NWA) 8656 with subophitic texture can be use...
supported by the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KZCX2-YW-110 and KZCX2-YW-Q08)
Y984028 is a new lherzolitic shergottite,consisting of poikilitic and non-poikilitic lithologies.The mafic silicates are FeO-poor,and the chromite is TiO 2-poor in the poikilitic lithology compared to the grains in th...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grand No. 40232026);State Key Laboratory for Mineral Deposits Research of Nanjing University and National Polar Research Institute;State 0ceanic Administration of the People's Republic of China.
Hydrogen isotopic composition was measured using an ion microprobe for lherzolitic shergottite in Martian meteorite GRV 99027 from the Grove Mountains in Antarctica. The D/H ratios of phosphate whitlockites were analy...
This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.40232026);the pilot project of knowledge innovation program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.KZCX3-SW-123).
Reported in this paper are the petrology and mineral chemistry of GRV 020090, the second Martian meteorite collected from the Grove Mountains, Antarctica. This meteorite, with a mass of 7.54 g, is completely covered b...