MIT Petrology Recent Publications

MARTIAN MAGMATISM AND WATER ON MARS

1. Johnson, S.S., Zuber, M.T., Grove, T.L., Mischna, M.A. (2007) Sulfur-induced green house warming on early Mars. J. Geophys. Res ., (submitted)

2. Singletary, S., Grove, T.L. (2007) Experimental petrology of the Mars Pathfinder rock composition: Constraints on the interpretation of Martian reflectance spectra. J. Geophys. Res ., (submitted)

3. Monders, A.G., Médard, E., Grove, T.L. (2006) Phase equilibrium investigations of the Adirondack class basalts from Gusev Plains, Gusev Crater, Mars. Meteoritics Planet. Sci., 42, 131-148.

4. Médard, E., Grove, T.L. (2006) Early hydrous melting and degassing of the Martian interior: an experimentalstudy. J. Geophys. Res., 111, E11003, doi:1029/2006JE002742

5. Foley, C.N., Wadhwa, M., Borg, L.E., Janney, P.E., Hines, R., Grove, T.L. (2005) The early differentiation history of Mars from W-182-Nd-142 isotope systematicsin the SNC meteorites, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 69 , 4557-4571.

6. McSween, H.Y. Jr., Grove, T.L., Wyatt, M.B. (2003) Constraints on thecomposition and petrogenesis of the Martian crust. JGR Planets, 108, E12, 5135,doi:10.1029/2003JE002175

7. H.Y. McSween Jr., T.L. Grove, R.C.F. Lentz, J.C. Dann, A.H. Holzheid, L.R. Riciputi, J.G. Ryan (2001) Geochemical evidence for magmatic water within Mars from pyroxenes in the Shergotty meteorite. Nature 409, p. 487- 490.

8. J.C. Dann, A.H. Holzheid, T.L. Grove, H.Y. and McSween, Jr.(2001) Phase equilibria of the Shergotty meteorite: Constraints on pre-eruptive water contents of martian magmas and fractional crystallization under hydrous conditions. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 36, p. 793 - 806.