Petrologic, Elemental and Multi-Isotopic Characterization of Permafic Olivine-Phyric Shergottite Northwest Africa 5789: A Primitive Magma Derived from Depleted Martian Mantle

Abstract

OLIVINE-PHYRIC SHERGOTTITE NORTHWEST AFRICA 5789: A PRIMITIVE MAGMA DERIVED FROM DEPLETED MARTIAN MANTLE. A. J. Irving, S. M. Kuehner, C. D. K. Herd, M. Gellissen, R. L. Korotev, I. Puchtel, R. J. Walker, T. J. Lapen and D. Rumble, III Earth & Space Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 (irving@ess.washington.edu), Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Institut fur Geologie, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, Dept. of Geology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Houston, TX, Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution, Washington, DC.