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METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE
Volume 51, Issue 11, Pages 2092-2110Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/maps.12647
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- NASA [NNX14AG44G]
- Humboldt Fellowship
- NSF Instrumentation and Facilities Program
- NASA Mars Fundamental Research Program [NNX13AG44G]
- NASA [474425, NNX14AG44G, 683946, NNX13AG44G] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
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The Martian meteorites record a wide diversity of environments, processes, and ages. Much work has been done to decipher potential mantle sources for Martian magmas and their interactions with crustal and surface environments. Chlorine isotopes provide a unique opportunity to assess interactions between Martian mantle-derived magmas and the crust. We have measured the Cl-isotopic composition of 17 samples that span the range of known ages, Martian environments, and mantle reservoirs. The Cl-37 of the Martian mantle, as represented by the olivine-phyric shergottites, NWA 2737 (chassignite), and Shergotty (basaltic shergottite), has a low value of approximately -3.8 parts per thousand. This value is lower than that of all other planetary bodies measured thus far. The Martian crust, as represented by regolith breccia NWA 7034, is variably enriched in the heavy isotope of Cl. This enrichment is reflective of preferential loss of Cl-35 to space. Most basaltic shergottites (less Shergotty), nakhlites, Chassigny, and Allan Hills 84001 lie on a continuum between the Martian mantle and crust. This intermediate range is explained by mechanical mixing through impact, fluid interaction, and assimilation-fractional crystallization.
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