Introduction: It is intriguing that the majority of lunar meteorites (~30) have been discovered in the hot deserts of Middle-East and North Africa. In contrast, of 10s of thousands of meteorite finds from Antarctica over 30 years, only a handful (~5) are lunar. This bias towards the lunar meteorite recovery from the hot deserts may be due to the preferential fall of lunar meteorites in these re...

Basaltic rocks exposed in the Shiting to Yinko area in northern Taiwan are considered to represent a member of the products of the Neogene intraplate volcanism in the Fujian-Taiwan region of the SE China continental margin. This paper presents new age dating, petrographic (including mineral chemistry) and geochemical data which suggest the existence of two groups of the basaltic rocks: the earl...

Smith, D. R. and Leeman, W. P., 1993. The origin of Mount St. Helens andesites. J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res., 55: 271-303. Mount St. Helens volcano has intermittently produced mainly dacitic products but occasionally erupted a more diverse suite of lavas including basalts and andesites. Petrogenetic relations between these magmas provide insight into the dynamics of the subjacent magma system. M...

BASALTS: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE DEGASSING OF WATER FROM MARTIAN MAGMAS. C. D. K. Herd, A. H. Treiman, G. A. McKay and C. K. Shearer, Lunar and Planetary Institute, 3600 Bay Area Blvd., Houston, TX 77058, [email protected], Astromaterials Research Office, SR, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058, Institute of Meteoritics, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico...

Degassing of planetary interiors through surface volcanism plays an important role in the evolution of planetary bodies and atmospheres. On Earth, carbon dioxide and water are the primary volatile species in magmas. However, little is known about the speciation and degassing of carbon in magmas formed on other planets (i.e., Moon, Mars, Mercury), where the mantle oxidation state [oxygen fugacit...

Geochemical signatures of arc basalts can be explained by addition of aqueous fluids, melts, and/or supercritical fluids from the subducting slab to the sub-arc mantle. Partitioning of large-ion lithophile elements between aqueous fluids and melts is crucial as these two liquid phases are present in the sub-arc pressure-temperature conditions. Using a micro-focused synchrotron X-ray beam, in si...

Abstract Carbonate and silicate metasomatism occurring in subduction zones is an important mechanism underlying mantle heterogeneity compositional diversity of mantle-derived rocks. However, distinguishing between the two kinds often difficult. Lithium (Li) its isotopes have great potential this regard because different Li isotopic compositions recycled marine carbonate components. We report da...

Introduction: This study presents first experimental results on the effect of fluorine on near-liquidus phase equilibria of an Adirondack-class Martian basalt. The basis of this study is our previous work on anhydrous [1] and chlorine bearing [2] systems which has already shown that: 1) the Adirondack-class basalts are evolved liquid compositions [1] and 2) that chlorine has a large effect on l...

Introduction: Volatile species, such as H2O, CO2, F, and Cl, are important in the generation and differentiation of basaltic melts. On the Earth, dissolved H2O (or in certain circumstances CO2) is thought to be the dominant volatile in most basaltic magmas. Therefore, significant effort has been placed on understanding how water and CO2 affect basalt genesis and crystallization of terrestrial m...