These minerals include olivines, pyroxenes, amphiboles and biotites. Olivenes. Pyroxene. Amphibole. Biotite. Silicates. Silicate materials make up 96% of the ...
Feldspar Group Most abundant mineral in the crust 6 of 7 most common elements Defined through 3 end-members Albite (Na), Anorthite (Ca), Orthoclase (K)
... (OH) See handout for more information General formula: W0 ... and gibbsite-type dioctahedral a1 a2 Phyllosilicates Muscovite: K Al2 [Si3AlO10] (OH)2 ...
Rock - solid matter made from minerals or petrified organic materials. Mineral - naturally occurring homogeneous inorganic solid having a definite chemical ...
Causes of absorption features ... presence of the excited electron in ... with a short laser pulse and watch what happens with a fast spectral detector. ...
The study of the properties of rocks and the processes behind their formation Recognition and description of rocks Interpretation of their origin and history
NEAR-Shoemaker mission to 433 Eros. NEAR stands for Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous ... around Eros occurred on February 14, 2000. 13 13 33 km. 433 Eros ...
1 Glass jar or drinking glass 1 Food coloring (optional) 1 ... Tie a short piece of cotton string to the middle of the pencil or stick. ... syrup to the string) ...
Title: Discrimination between olivine and pyroxene from Clementine NIR data: Application to Aristarchus crater Author: Dupont Last modified by: St phane Erard
(a) Hydrogen and helium dominate completely ... methane clathrate hydrate. HCNO phase diagram. Notes: ... Did clathrate hydrates play any role in pristine materials? ...
Asteroids belonging to the taxonomic M-class have historically been identified ... differentiated parent bodies, exposed over time through collisional processes. ...
Deformation of Diopside Single Crystals at Mantle P and T ... Global'' (editors S. Karato, A.M. Forte, R.C. Liebermann, G. Masters and L.Stixrude),237-264. ...
a natural, usually inorganic solid that has a characteristic chemical ... muscovite, biotite, calcite, dolomite, halite, gypsum, and ferromagnesian minerals. ...
Isotopic Measurements with the Cameca ims 1280 Ion Microprobe at the University of Hawai i Gary R. Huss, Kazu Nagashima, Sasha Krot, Kentaro Makide, and Lydie Bonal
e.g. sulphide exposed to air does not always oxidize rapidly? ... Commonly oxidized elements and visible in the regolith are. Fe2 Fe3 Mn2 Mn3 So S6 ...
Form in the geosphere (most minerals), hydrosphere (e.g., halite), biosphere (e. ... Although over 4000 minerals have been identified, only a few hundred are common ...
Asteroid Vesta (540 km diameter) is a candidate for the EPB as its surface is ... Asteroid Vesta - Eucrite Parent Body? From: B. Zellner and NASA. Spectroscopy ...
NIR reflectance spectroscopy: The promises and challenges ... Instrumentation: IRTF SpeX spectrograph offers dramatic improvements in sensitivity and quality. ...
Bill Irvine will talk about 'Comets, the Interstellar Medium, and Life' Then pizza ... That these very volatile elements would be abundant in comets ...
Fe & Mn are generally considered to be trace elements in open-water aquatic ... Weathered FeS2-Bearing Basalt from the Juan de Fuca Ridge. Edwards et al. (2003) ...
... in the Conamara region of Jupiter's moon Europa showing the interplay of surface ... On the nightside (right side), the moon glows red out for over 200 kilometers ...
Layered Igneous Intrusions IN THIS LECTURE Compositional Variation in Magmas Crystal Fractionation The Phase Rule Binary Systems Congruent versus Incongruent Melting
The properties of the minerals are controlled by the silicate ... Gabbro / Basalt - mafic. Peridotite -- ultramafic. Igneous Textures. Aphanitic - fine grain ...
Augite (Calcium Sodium Magnesium Iron Aluminum Silicate) Diopside (Calcium ... For example, ALH 84001 was first meteorite discovered in 1984-1985 field season ...
In principle, a Rock Type has a narrowly defined ... different classification schemes and diagrams for broadly different rock suites. Granitic Rocks ...
17. Fe-chlorite quartz muscovite=almandine annite water ... almandine phlogopite pyrope annite. Small V makes it insensitive to P and large S/ V=dP/dT ...
Where atomic sites are occupied by variable proportions of two or more different ... Mg3Al2Si3O12- Fe3Al2Si3O12 Pyrope -Almandine. Problem 4: Orthopyroxenes ...
Measurement shows that the actual S = 3.5 cal K-1 mol-1 which tells us that ... This is done in a stepwise fashion. 1) First apportion all Si on to the T sites. ...
Partition coefficients and bulk repartition coefficient (Kd and D) ... Nb and Ta (Nb/Ta chondritic 15-20, less for crustal rocks) Zr and Hf (Zr/Hf chondritic 30-35) ...