Olivine-Phyric Shergottite LAR 06319: Its relation to the enriched components in Martian basalts
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plagioclase and spinels in LAR 06319. Fig. 1: Thin-section photomicrograph of LAR 06319, 37, in transmitted light. Olivine-Phyric Shergottite LAR 06319: Its relation to the enriched components in Martian basalts. A. Basu Sarbadhikari 1,2 , J.M.D. Day 3 , Y. Liu 1 , and L.A. Taylor 1 ; 1 Planetary Geosciences Institute, Dept. of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA ([email protected]), 2 The PML for Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry, Institute for Study of the Earth’s Interior, Okayama Univ. at Misasa, Tottori 682-0193, Japan, 3 Department of Geology, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20740, USA
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