Introduction: Individual grains and small lithic clasts in thin-sectioned suevitic breccia samples from the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) Bosumtwi impact crater drillcore LB07A were examined petrographically to evaluate the occurrence , abundance, and characteristics of unshocked and shock-metamorphosed quartz. The analyzed samples were taken across a ~42-m-long (...

Introduction: For nearly a decade, the international program of Mars exploration has been guided by a remarkably useful framework that describes how Mars' environmental conditions have evolved in the context of time-dependent changes in the mineralogy of rock and regolith deposits at the Martian surface [1]. Built on the basis of observations by the OMEGA spectrometer onboard ESA's Mars Express...

Basalt: Volcanic lava rock containing silicate minerals rich in magnesium and iron plus plagioclase. CI or chrondritic standard: elemental and isotopic abundances in the sun and in carbonaceous chrondrites are the same except in some very special details. Differentiation: creation of chemical differences in magma by processes that separate minerals from it, usually as a result of contrasting de...

the area is located 20 km northwest of kashmar and about 4 km of kalateh taimour in khorasan razavi province. the study area is part of tertiary volcanic-plutonic belt north of daruneh fault and its situation in tectonic inliers between two important active faults, doruneh and taknar. volcanic rocks are mainly intermediate to acid pyroclastic type. they formed during early tertiary. the volcani...

[1] The basement rock and structures of the Ross Sea rift are exposed in coastal western Marie Byrd Land (wMBL), West Antarctica. Thinned, extended continental crust forms wMBL and the eastern Ross Sea continental shelf, where faults control the regional basin-and range-type topography at 20 km spacing. Onshore in the Ford Ranges and Rockefeller Mountains of wMBL, basement rocks consist of Earl...

Major and trace element composition of silicate melt inclusions (SMI) their rock-forming minerals were studied in mafic garnet granulite xenoliths from the Bakony–Balaton Highland Volcanic Field (Western-Hungary). Primary SMIs occur clinopyroxene plagioclase plagioclase-rich domains granulites ilmenite vicinity these wall rock. Based on major elements, we demonstrated that have no connection wi...