P33E:
Exploring the Igneous Evolution of Mars with Observations and Analogs I

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
Chairs:  Suniti Karunatillake, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, James J Wray, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States and J.R. Skok, Louisiana State University, Geology and Geophysics, Baton Rouge, LA, United States; Brown University, Apalachin, NY, United States
Primary Conveners:  Suniti Karunatillake, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
Co-conveners:  James J Wray, Georgia Institute of Tech., Atlanta, GA, United States and John R Skok, Brown University, Apalachin, NY, United States; Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  J.R. Skok, Louisiana State University, Geology and Geophysics, Baton Rouge, LA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

1:40 PM
 
Feldspathic Rock Spectral Detections on Mars: Geologic Context, Possible Formation Mechanisms, and the TES/Themis Perspective
Deanne Rogers and Hanna Nekvasil, Stony Brook University, Geosciences, Stony Brook, NY, United States
1:55 PM
 
Magmatic Controls on the Genesis of Ni-Cu-PGE Sulphide Mineralisation on Mars
Raphael Johannes Baumgartner1, Marco Fiorentini1, David Baratoux2, Steven Micklethwaite1, Kerim Sener3 and Campbell McCuaig1, (1)University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia, (2)Observatory Midi-Pyrenees, Toulouse, France, (3)Matrix Exploration Pty Ltd, Perth, Australia
2:10 PM
 
Plains Style Caldera Complexes: Evidence for Ancient, Explosive Volcanism on Mars
Joseph R Michalski, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom; Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States and Jacob E Bleacher, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
2:25 PM
 
Subsidence and Collapse Activity in Arabia Terra, Mars: Which Link with Magmatic Activity?
Nicolas Mangold, LPGN Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique de Nantes, Nantes Cedex 03, France and Alan D Howard, University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States
2:40 PM
 
A Description of Sub-Equatorial Volcanic Structures Consistent with Sub-Ice Magmatism East of Nepenthes Mensae, Mars.
Graziella Caprarelli, University of South Australia, Division of IT, Engineering and the Environment, Adelaide, SA, Australia and Miguel Angel de Pablo Hernandez, Universidad de Alcala, Geologia, Geografia y Medio Ambiente, Alcala de Henares, Madrid, Spain
2:55 PM
 
Diverse, Alkali-Rich Igneous and Volcaniclastic Rocks Reflect a Metasomatised Mantle Beneath Gale Crater
Mariek E Schmidt, Brock University, St Catharines, ON, Canada, Michael B Baker, CALTECH, Pasadena, CA, United States, Jeffrey A Berger, University of Western Ontario, Earth Science, London, ON, Canada, Martin R Fisk, Oregon State Univ, Corvallis, OR, United States, Ralf Gellert, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, Scott M McLennan, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States, Megan Eve Newcombe, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, Edward M Stolper, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Lucy Thompson, University of New Brunswick, Earth Sciences, Fredericton, NB, Canada
3:10 PM
 
Accretionary Complexes: Recorders of Plate Tectonism and Environmental Conditions Through Time on Earth and Possibly Those Early Noachian (Hadean-equivalent) in Age on Mars
James M Dohm1, Shigenori Maruyama2, Hideaki Miyamoto1, Christina E Viviano-Beck3 and Robert C Anderson4, (1)University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, (2)Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, (3)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (4)JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States
3:25 PM
 
The Heat-Pipe Hypothesis for Early Crustal Development of Terrestrial Planets
Alexander G Webb, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, William B Moore, Hampton University, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Hampton, VA, United States and Justin I Simon, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States
 
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