Amorphous Component of Martian Soils and Sedimentary Rocks: What Fraction Impact Glasses?
Abstract
Soil on Mars has a high amorphous component not seen on Earth. This raises questions what percentage of impact glass samples are amorphous, and what shock pressure they were subjected to. Analog shocked basalts are analyzed for this and alteration.
- Publication:
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77th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society
- Pub Date:
- September 2014
- Bibcode:
- 2014LPICo1800.5408W