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American Mineralogist: International Journal of Earth and Planetary Materials Research

Published Papers: What Lurks in the Martian Rocks and Soil? Investigations of Sulfates, Phosphates, and Perchlorates
Total Results: 20

Volume 100 : February 2015 Issue

1110 Optical constants of synthetic potassium, sodium, and hydronium jarosite
Elizabeth C. Sklute, Timothy D. Glotch, Jennifer L. Piatek, William R. Woerner, Alexis A. Martone and Meredith L. Kraner

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Volume 100 : April 2015 Issue

738 Akaganéite and schwertmannite: Spectral properties and geochemical implications of their possible presence on Mars
Janice L. Bishop, Enver Murad and M. Darby Dyar

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Volume 100 : January 2015 Issue

66 Mid-infrared emission spectroscopy and visible/near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy of Fe-sulfate minerals
Melissa D. Lane, Janice L. Bishop, M. Darby Dyar, Takahiro Hiroi, Stanley A. Mertzman, David L. Bish, Penelope L. King and A. Deanne Rogers

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Volume 99 : August 2014 Issue

2234 Ferrian saponite from the Santa Monica Mountains (California, U.S.A., Earth): Characterization as an analog for clay minerals on Mars with application to Yellowknife Bay in Gale Crater
Allan H. Treiman, Richard V. Morris, David G. Agresti, Trevor G. Graff, Cherie N. Achilles, Elizabeth B. Rampe, Thomas F. Bristow, Douglas W. Ming, David F. Blake, David T. Vaniman, David L. Bish, Steve J. Chipera, Shaunna M. Morrison and Robert T. Downs

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2227 Etch-pit size, dissolution rate, and time in the experimental dissolution of olivine: Implications for estimating olivine lifetime at the surface of Mars
Michael A. Velbel

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Volume 99 : October 2014 Issue

2126 Gypsum in modern Kamchatka volcanic hot springs and the Lower Cambrian black shale: Applied to the microbial-mediated precipitation of sulfates on Mars
Min Tang, Anouk Ehreiser and Yi-Liang Li

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2116 Flower-like apatite recording microbial processes through deep geological time and its implication to the search for mineral records of life on Mars
Si Sun, Lung S. Chan and Yi-Liang Li

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2105 Spectral properties of Ca-sulfates: Gypsum, bassanite, and anhydrite
Janice L. Bishop, Melissa D. Lane, M. Darby Dyar, Sara J. King, Adrian J. Brown and Gregg A. Swayze

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Volume 99 : May 2014 Issue

1593 Reflectance spectroscopy and optical functions for hydrated Fe-sulfates
Karly M. Pitman, Eldar Z. Noe Dobrea, Corey S. Jamieson, James B. Dalton III, William J. Abbey and Emily C.S. Joseph

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1580 Spectral and thermal properties of perchlorate salts and implications for Mars
Janice L. Bishop, Richard Quinn and M. Darby Dyar

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1570 Multivariate analysis of Raman spectra for the identification of sulfates: Implications for ExoMars
Guillermo Lopez-Reyes, Pablo Sobron, Catherine Lefebvre and Fernando Rull

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Volume 99 : July 2014 Issue

1221 Synthesis and characterization of the Mars-relevant phosphate minerals Fe- and Mg-whitlockite and merrillite and a possible mechanism that maintains charge balance during whitlockite to merrillite transformation
Christopher T. Adcock, Elisabeth M. Hausrath, Paul M. Forster, Oliver Tschauner and Kirellos J. Sefein

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1216 Stability and spectroscopy of Mg sulfate minerals: Role of hydration on sulfur isotope partitioning
Ema Bobocioiu and Razvan Caracas

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1206 Dissolution rates of amorphous Al- and Fe-phosphates and their relevance to phosphate mobility on Mars
Valerie M. Tu, Elisabeth M. Hausrath, Oliver Tschauner, Valentin Iota and Gerald W. Egeland

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1199 Natural Fe-bearing oxides and sulfates from the Rio Tinto Mars analog site: Critical assessment of VNIR reflectance spectroscopy, laser Raman spectroscopy, and XRD as mineral identification tools
Pablo Sobron, Janice L. Bishop, David F. Blake, Bin Chen and Fernando Rull

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Volume 99 : February 2014 Issue

948 Detection of iron substitution in natroalunite-natrojarosite solid solutions and potential implications for Mars
Thomas M. McCollom, Bethany L. Ehlmann, Alian Wang, Brian M. Hynek, Bruce Moskowitz and Thelma S. Berquó

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943 A temperature-controlled sample stage for in situ micro-X-ray diffraction: Application to Mars analog mirabilite-bearing perennial cold spring precipitate mineralogy
Michael S. Bramble, Roberta L. Flemming, Jeffrey L. Hutter, Melissa M. Battler, Gordon R. Osinski and Neil R. Banerjee

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914 Mössbauer parameters of iron in phosphate minerals: Implications for interpretation of martian data
M. Darby Dyar, Erica R. Jawin, Elly Breves, Gerard Marchand, Melissa Nelms, Melissa D. Lane, Stanley A. Mertzman, David L. Bish and Janice L. Bishop

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Volume 99 : November 2014 Issue

291 Alteration of Hawaiian basalts under sulfur-rich conditions: Applications to understanding surface-atmosphere interactions on Mars and Venus
Molly C. McCanta, M. Darby Dyar and Allan H. Treiman

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283 Sulfate-bearing deposits at Dalangtan Playa and their implication for the formation and preservation of martian salts
W.G. Kong, M.P. Zheng, F.J. Kong and W.X. Chen

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