Bibcode
Treiman, Allan H.; Lindstrom, David J.; Martinez, Rene R.
Bibliographical reference
In Lunar and Planetary Inst., The Twenty-Fifth Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Part 3: P-Z p 1417-1418 (SEE N94-35448 11-91)
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1994
Citations
2
Refereed citations
2
Description
The SNC meteorites are samples of the Martian crust, so inferences about
their origins and parent magmas are of wide planetologic significance.
The EETA79001 shergottite, a basalt, contains xenoliths of
pyroxene-olivine cumulate rocks which are possibly related to the
ALHA77005 and LEW88516 SNC lherzolites. Olivines in the xenoliths
contain magmatic inclusions, relics of magma trapped within the growing
crystals. The magmatic inclusions allow a parent magma composition to be
retrieved; it is similar to the composition reconstructed from xenolith
pyroxenes by element distribution coefficients. The xenolith parent
magma is similar but not identical to parent magmas for the shergottite
lherzolites.