Title
Analysis of Iron-Containing Weathering Products in Serpentine Soils and Their Implications for Mars.
Document Type
Abstract
Publication Date
3-1-2018
Publication Title
49th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference 2018
First page number:
1
Last page number:
2
Abstract
Introduction: Abundant X-ray amorphous material has been detected at Gale Crater by X-ray diffraction (XRD) using CheMin. Approximately 27% - 40% Xray amorphous material [1,2] has been found intermixed with primary basaltic minerals at the Rocknest aeolian bedform. In XRD patterns, it was best fit by either basaltic glass or allophane (a hydrous aluminosilicate with a molar Si: Al ratio of typically 1:2 or 1:1), although it is believed based on chemical data to contain Fe [1,3]. The X-ray amorphous material is also volatile-rich based on Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM), which suggests that the amorphous material may contain secondary phases [1,2].
Disciplines
Astrophysics and Astronomy
Language
English
Repository Citation
Bamisile, T. A.,
Hausrath, E. M.,
Tschauner, O. D.,
Harrold, Z. R.,
Adcock, C.,
Phillips-Lander, C. M.,
Gainey, S.,
Gabriel, R.
(2018).
Analysis of Iron-Containing Weathering Products in Serpentine Soils and Their Implications for Mars..
49th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference 2018
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