Letter. A simple inorganic process for formation of carbonates, magnetite, and sulfides in martian meteorite ALH84001
@article{Golden2001LetterAS,
title={Letter. A simple inorganic process for formation of carbonates, magnetite, and sulfides in martian meteorite ALH84001},
author={D. C. Golden and Doug W. Ming and Craig S. Schwandt and Howard V. Lauer and Richard A. Socki and Richard V. Morris and Gary E. Lofgren and Gordon Mckay},
journal={American Mineralogist},
year={2001},
volume={86},
pages={370 - 375}
}Abstract We show experimental evidence that the zoned Mg-Fe-Ca carbonates, magnetite, and Fe sulfides in Martian meteorite ALH84001 may have formed by simple, inorganic processes. Chemically zoned carbonate globules and Fe sulfides were rapidly precipitated under low-temperature (150 °C), hydrothermal, and non-equilibrium conditions from multiple fluxes of Ca-Mg-Fe-CO2-S-H2O solutions that have different compositions. Chemically pure, single-domain, defect-free magnetite crystals were formed by…
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