Introduction: Spectroscopic observations offer the best means to evaluate chemical weathering on Mars at regional and global scales. Near-infrared (NIR) spectral data from OMEGA and CRISM have revealed hydrated minerals that indicate aqueous alteration, including different clay minerals [1-3], sulfates [1,4], silica [5], and carbonates [6], which are regionally localized across the Martian high...

A common view of the thermal and shock histories of ordinary-chondrite (OC) parent bodies is that, for the most part, thermal and shock metamorphism were distinguishable and successive events; e.g., the decay of 26 Al heated chon-dritic planetesimals and subsequent impacts produced various shock effects. Although collisions have long been acknowledged as capable of producing significant heating...

Although Brazil is one of the world's leading exporter agricultural products, country highly dependent on importation potassic fertilizers. K-bearing silicate rocks are reported as potential solutions to reduce external K dependency. This work evaluated extraction from Verdete rock, a glauconite-bearing rock containing 10 % K2O, by solubilization with organic acids. Firstly, was reacted during ...

Introduction: Shocked rocks are known from various planetary bodies of the solar system including Earth, Moon, Mars, and several types of asteroids. It was first recognized on Earth that stages of progressive shock metamorphism can be defined [1,2,3,4] and this concept was later on confirmed for lunar rocks [5] and meteorites [6,7,8]. Initiated by the IUGS “Subcommission on the Classification o...

The weathering of volcanic rocks contributes significantly to the global silicate weathering budget, effecting carbon dioxide drawdown and long-term climate control. The rate of chemical weathering is influenced by the composition of the rock. Rock-dwelling micro-organisms are known to play a role in changing the rate of weathering reactions; however, the influence of rock composition on bio-we...

Abstract Chemical exchange between silicate magmas and carbonate rocks has major implications for igneous fractionation, atmospheric CO2 flux, formation of mineral deposits. However, this process is only partly understood, long-standing questions whether, where, how can be digested by melts remain controversial. We describe evidence pervasive chemical melt rock in a shallow porphyry setting dri...

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The Lafayette meteorite is an olivine clinopyroxenite that crystallized on Mars ~1300 million years ago within a lava flow or shallow sill. Liquid water entered this igneous rock ~700 million years later to produce a suite of secondary minerals, collectively called ‘iddingsite’, that occur as veins within grains of augite and olivine. The deuterium/hydrogen ratio of water within these secondary...

The primordial earth surface exposed minerals comprised mainly of carbonates, silicates and smaller amounts of phosphates. Weathering eventually led to the dissolution of the surface rock and the leaching of their components into the rivers, lakes and oceans. There, complex chemistry depending upon the temperature, pH, pressure, and atmospheric carbon dioxide content led to the reprecipitation ...