P54B:
The Martian Crust: Synergism of Meteorites and Missions I

Friday, 19 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Alison R Santos, Univ New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States and Roger C Wiens, Space Science and Applications, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Primary Conveners:  Alison R Santos, Univ New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Co-conveners:  Carl B Agee, Univ New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Roger C Wiens, Space Science and Applications, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Mariek E Schmidt, Brock University, St Catharines, ON, Canada
OSPA Liaisons:  Carl B Agee, University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

4:00 PM
 
Martian Meteorites and Spacecraft Data: Synergy or Mismatch?
Harry Y McSween Jr, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States
4:15 PM
 
Northwest Africa 8159: New Type of Martian Meteorite
Carl B Agee1, Nele Muttik1, Karen G Ziegler2, Erin L. Walton3, Christopher D K Herd3, Francis M McCubbin4, Alison R Santos5 and Justin I Simon6, (1)University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)Univ of NM-Inst of Meteoritics, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (3)University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (4)Univ of New Mexico-MSC03 2050, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (5)Univ New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (6)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States
4:30 PM
 
Ancient Crustal Diversity Preserved within Martian Meteorite NWA 7034
Alison R Santos, Carl B Agee, Francis M McCubbin, Charles K Shearer and Paul V Burger, Univ New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States
4:45 PM
 
New IR mineralogy and Rb-Sr geochronology measurements of Martian meteorites
F. Scott Anderson1, Victoria E Hamilton1 and Gretchen K Benedix2, (1)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia
5:00 PM
 
The nature of Mars’s surface hydration: converging views from satellite (MEX), surface (MSL) and meteorite (NWA 7034 / 7533 and co) observations.
Pierre Beck1, Antoine Pommerol2, Brigitte Zanda3, Laurent Remusat4, Jean-Pierre Lorand5, Christa H Gopel6, Roger Hewins4,7, Sylvain Pont4, Eric Lewin8, Eric Quirico1, Bernard Schmitt1, German Montes-Hernandez8, Alexandre Garenne1, Lydie Bonal1, Olivier Proux9, Jean-Louis Hazemann10, Vincent Chevrier11, Javier Martín-Torres12, Maria-Paz Zorzano12, Olivier Gasnault13, Sylvestre Maurice14 and Roger C Wiens15, (1)UJF-Grenoble 1 / CNRS-INSU, Institut de Planétologie et d’Astrophysique de Grenoble (IPAG), Grenoble, France, (2)University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, (3)Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, paris, France, (4)Muséum National d´Histoire Naturelle, Laboratoire de Minéralogie et Cosmochimie du Muséum, Paris, France, (5)LPGN Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique de Nantes, Nantes Cedex 03, France, (6)Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, (7)Rutgers University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Puscataway, NJ, United States, (8)UJF-Grenoble 1 / CNRS-INSU, Institut des Sciences de la Terre (IsTERRE), Grenoble, France, (9)Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers de Grenoble (OSUG), Grenoble, France, (10)Institut Néel, Grenoble, France, (11)University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States, (12)Centro de Astrobiologia, Madrid, Spain, (13)Universite de Toulouse, Toulouse Cedex 4, France, (14)IRAP, Toulouse, France, (15)Space Science and Applications, Los Alamos, NM, United States
5:15 PM
 
Comparison of Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) on Martian Meteorite NWA 7034 to ChemCam Observations at Gale Crater, Mars
Suzi Gordon1, Horton E Newsom2, Carl B Agee1, Alison R Santos2, Samuel M Clegg3, Roger C Wiens4, Jeremie Lasue5 and Violaine Sautter6, (1)University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)Univ New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (4)Space Science and Applications, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (5)IRAP, Toulouse, France, (6)MNHN National Museum of Natural History Paris, Paris, France
5:30 PM
 
Felsic Igneous Rocks at Gale Crater : a Comparison with Lithic Clasts in NWA 7533
Violaine Sautter1, Roger C Wiens2, Michael J Toplis3, Agnes Cousin2, Olivier Forni4 and Cecile Fabre5, (1)CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)IRAP, Toulouse, France, (4)IRAP-CNRS, Toulouse Cedex 4, France, (5)University of Lorraine Nancy, Nancy Cedex, France
5:45 PM
 
Hypotheses on the Source of Potassium Enrichment in Some Gale Crater Rocks
Martin R Fisk1, Melinda Darby Dyar2, John Bridges3, Ryan B Anderson4, Mariek E Schmidt5, Olivier Gasnault6, Nicolas Mangold7, Robert L Tokar8, Roger C Wiens9, Ralf Gellert10, David Frederick Blake11, Susanne P Schwenzer12 and Peter Edwards3, (1)Oregon State Univ, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, United States, (3)University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1, United Kingdom, (4)USGS Astrogeology Science Center, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (5)Brock University, St Catharines, ON, Canada, (6)Universite de Toulouse, Toulouse Cedex 4, France, (7)LPGN Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique de Nantes, Nantes Cedex 03, France, (8)Planetary Science Institute, Santa Fe, NM, United States, (9)Space Science and Applications, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (10)University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, (11)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (12)Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7, United Kingdom
 
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