The complex interplay between depositional facies and diagenesis in dolostones presents numerous challenges for calculating petrophysical properties from wireline logs. Complex pore geometries and mineralogies control rock petrophysical properties, and equations for calculating porosities and saturations must therefore be tailored to specific pore geometry-mineralogy combinations. The complex m...

-The chemical and the mineralogical composition of a group of pumiceous tufts associated with recent salic volcanic episodes from Tenerife (Canary Islands) have been studied. The investigation focused on the two main types of pyroclastic deposits of the zone: ash-flows and ash-falls. The samples can be classified chemically as trachytic and phonolitic rocks with an intermediate silica content a...

Rare earth elements (REE) are either housed in exotic REE minerals that sporadically populate the host rock or they occur as ionic substitutions in the crystal structure of existing rock-forming minerals. The genesis of REEs in carbonatite rocks can result in intricate mineralogical textures between REE minerals, host rock minerals, and minerals formed by later processes. Upfront mineralogical ...

Previous studies suggested the existence of a correlation between 26 Al relative crystallisation ages and mineralogical and bulk chemical compositions of ferromagnesian chondrules from the Bishunpur and Semarkona unequilibrated ordinary (Mostefaoui et al., 2002; Tachibana et al., 2003). However, because the precision in 26 Al ages was moderate, these correlations are questionable. Here, we repo...

Introduction: It has been theorized that the effects of space weathering during soil formation on the Moon are similar to those for many other airless bodies (e.g., Vesta, Eros) [1,2]. Therefore, the study of these effects on lunar soils may form the basis for our understanding of other heavenly bodies. This is a particularly valid axiom for reflectance spectroscopy of these soils. It has been ...