Lunar and Martian Silica

Discovery of moganite in a lunar meteorite as a trace of H 2 O ice in the Moon’s regolith

(2018) Masahiro Kayama et al.   Science Advances

Petrogenesis of the NWA 7320 enriched martian gabbroic shergottite: Insight into the martian crust

(2017) Arya Udry et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

The Northwest Africa 8159 martian meteorite: Expanding the martian sample suite to the early Amazonian

(2017) Christopher D.K. Herd et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Pressure–induced crystallization of biogenic hydrous amorphous silica

(2017) Atsushi KYONO et al.   Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences

High-pressure minerals in shocked meteorites

(2017) Naotaka Tomioka et al.   METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE

Petrogenesis of basaltic shergottite Northwest Africa 8657: Implications for f O2 correlations and element redistribution during shock melting in shergottites

(2017) Geoffrey H. Howarth et al.   METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE

The Lassell massif—A silicic lunar volcano

(2016) J.W. Ashley et al.   ICARUS

Alteration minerals, fluids, and gases on early Mars: Predictions from 1-D flow geochemical modeling of mineral assemblages in meteorite ALH 84001

(2016) Mohit Melwani Daswani et al.   METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE

Silicic volcanism on Mars evidenced by tridymite in high-SiO2sedimentary rock at Gale crater

(2016) Richard V. Morris et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Silica deposits on Mars with features resembling hot spring biosignatures at El Tatio in Chile

(2016) Steven W. Ruff et al.   Nature Communications

High-pressure minerals in eucrite suggest a small source crater on Vesta

(2016) Run-Lian Pang et al.   Scientific Reports

Silica polymorphs in lunar granite: Implications for granite petrogenesis on the Moon

(2015) Stephen M. Seddio et al.   AMERICAN MINERALOGIST

Discovery of stishovite in Apollo 15299 sample

(2015) Shohei Kaneko et al.   AMERICAN MINERALOGIST

Tissintite, (Ca, Na, □)AlSi 2 O 6 , a highly-defective, shock-induced, high-pressure clinopyroxene in the Tissint martian meteorite

(2015) Chi Ma et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

A Noachian source region for the “Black Beauty” meteorite, and a source lithology for Mars surface hydrated dust?

(2015) P. Beck et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Petrography and geochemistry of the enriched basaltic shergottite Northwest Africa 2975

(2015) Qi He et al.   METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE

Opal-A in the Nakhla meteorite: A tracer of ephemeral liquid water in the Amazonian crust of Mars

(2015) M. R. Lee et al.   METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE

Ongoing hydrothermal activities within Enceladus

(2015) Hsiang-Wen Hsu et al.   NATURE

High-temperature water–rock interactions and hydrothermal environments in the chondrite-like core of Enceladus

(2015) Yasuhito Sekine et al.   Nature Communications

Evidence for explosive silicic volcanism on the Moon from the extended distribution of thorium near the Compton-Belkovich Volcanic Complex

(2015) J. T. Wilson et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS

Curious kinetic behavior in silica polymorphs solves seifertite puzzle in shocked meteorite

(2015) T. Kubo et al.   Science Advances

Putative Indigenous Carbon-Bearing Alteration Features in Martian Meteorite Yamato 000593

(2014) Lauren M. White et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Lunar feldspathic meteorites: Constraints on the geology of the lunar highlands, and the origin of the lunar crust

(2014) Juliane Gross et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Heterogeneous mineral assemblages in martian meteorite Tissint as a result of a recent small impact event on Mars

(2014) E.L. Walton et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Case study of magmatic differentiation trends on the Moon based on lunar meteorite Northwest Africa 773 and comparison with Apollo 15 quartz monzodiorite

(2014) Timothy J. Fagan et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Thorite in an Apollo 12 granite fragment and age determination using the electron microprobe

(2014) Stephen M. Seddio et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Discovery of coesite and stishovite in eucrite

(2014) M. Miyahara et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A new model of lunar crust: asymmetry in crustal composition and evolution

(2014) Tomoko Arai et al.   EARTH PLANETS AND SPACE

Performance and scientific objectives of the SELENE (KAGUYA) Multiband Imager

(2014) Makiko Ohtake et al.   EARTH PLANETS AND SPACE

Implications for the origins of pure anorthosites found in the feldspathic lunar meteorites, Dhofar 489 group

(2014) Hiroshi Nagaoka et al.   EARTH PLANETS AND SPACE

The Ksar Ghilane 002 shergottite-The 100th registered Martian meteorite fragment

(2013) Jordi Llorca et al.   METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE

High-velocity collisions from the lunar cataclysm recorded in asteroidal meteorites

(2013) S. Marchi et al.   Nature Geoscience

Shock-induced formation mechanism of seifertite in shergottites

(2013) Ulrich W. Bläß   PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF MINERALS

Unique Meteorite from Early Amazonian Mars: Water-Rich Basaltic Breccia Northwest Africa 7034

(2013) C. B. Agee et al.   SCIENCE

Discovery of seifertite in a shocked lunar meteorite

(2013) Masaaki Miyahara et al.   Nature Communications

Sequestration of Martian CO2 by mineral carbonation

(2013) Tim Tomkinson et al.   Nature Communications

The Tissint Martian meteorite as evidence for the largest impact excavation

(2013) Ioannis P. Baziotis et al.   Nature Communications

The nakhlite hydrothermal brine on Mars

(2012) J.C. Bridges et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Petrogenesis of the Northwest Africa 4734 basaltic lunar meteorite

(2012) Ying Wang et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Shock-induced deformation of Shergottites: Shock-pressures and perturbations of magmatic ages on Mars

(2012) Ahmed El Goresy et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Constraints on the volatile distribution within Shackleton crater at the lunar south pole

(2012) Maria T. Zuber et al.   NATURE

Shock-Induced Phase Transformations in Melt Pockets within Martian Meteorite NWA 4468

(2012) Suporn Boonsue et al.   SPECTROSCOPY LETTERS

Shock veins in the central uplift of the Manicouagan impact structure: Context and genesis

(2011) Marc B. Biren et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Uranium-lead age of baddeleyite in shergottite Roberts Massif 04261: Implications for magmatic activity on Mars

(2011) Takafumi Niihara   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Petrogenesis of basaltic shergottite Northwest Africa 5298: Closed-system crystallization of an oxidized mafic melt

(2011) Hejiu HUI et al.   METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE

Non-mare silicic volcanism on the lunar farside at Compton–Belkovich

(2011) Bradley L. Jolliff et al.   Nature Geoscience

Timing and characteristics of the latest mare eruption on the Moon

(2010) Tomokatsu Morota et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The variety of lithologies in the Yamato-86032 lunar meteorite: Implications for formation processes of the lunar crust

(2010) A. Yamaguchi et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Mineralogy and geochemistry of four lunar soils by laser-Raman study

(2010) Z.C. Ling et al.   ICARUS

Petrology of Martian meteorite Northwest Africa 998

(2010) Allan H. TREIMAN et al.   METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE

A combined ToF-SIMS and EMP/SEM study of a three-phase symplectite in the Los Angeles basaltic shergottite

(2010) Detlef Rost et al.   METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE

Magnesian anorthositic granulites in lunar meteorites Allan Hills A81005 and Dhofar 309: Geochemistry and global significance

(2010) Allan H. TREIMAN et al.   METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE

Petrogenesis of lunar meteorite Northwest Africa 2977: Constraints from in situ microprobe results

(2010) Ai-Cheng ZHANG et al.   METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE

Possible mantle origin of olivine around lunar impact basins detected by SELENE

(2010) Satoru Yamamoto et al.   Nature Geoscience

Coesite and stishovite in a shocked lunar meteorite, Asuka-881757, and impact events in lunar surface

(2010) E. Ohtani et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Highly Silicic Compositions on the Moon

(2010) T. D. Glotch et al.   SCIENCE

Detection of Water in the LCROSS Ejecta Plume

(2010) A. Colaprete et al.   SCIENCE

Mechanisms for incompatible-element enrichment on the Moon deduced from the lunar basaltic meteorite Northwest Africa 032

(2009) Lars E. Borg et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Laihunite and jarosite in the Yamato 00 nakhlites: Alteration products on Mars?

(2009) Takaaki Noguchi et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Identification of hydrated silicate minerals on Mars using MRO-CRISM: Geologic context near Nili Fossae and implications for aqueous alteration

(2009) Bethany L. Ehlmann et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

The global distribution of pure anorthosite on the Moon

(2009) Makiko Ohtake et al.   NATURE

Temporal and Spatial Variability of Lunar Hydration As Observed by the Deep Impact Spacecraft

(2009) J. M. Sunshine et al.   SCIENCE

The Moon 35 years after Apollo: What's left to learn?

(2008) Clive R. Neal   CHEMIE DER ERDE-GEOCHEMISTRY

Seifertite, a dense orthorhombic polymorph of silica from the Martian meteorites Shergotty and Zagami

(2008) Ahmed El Goresy et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MINERALOGY

The age of the martian meteorite Northwest Africa 1195 and the differentiation history of the shergottites

(2008) Steven J.K. Symes et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

High-silica deposits of an aqueous origin in western Hellas Basin, Mars

(2008) Joshua L. Bandfield   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Hydrated silicate minerals on Mars observed by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter CRISM instrument

(2008) John F. Mustard et al.   NATURE

Detection of Silica-Rich Deposits on Mars

(2008) S. W. Squyres et al.   SCIENCE