Chemical weathering indices are commonly used for characterizing weathering profiles by incorporating bulk major element oxide chemishy inlo a single metric for each sample. Generally, on homogeneous parent rocks, weathering indices change systematically with depth. However, the weathering of heterogeneous metamorphic rocks confounds the relationship between weathering index and depth. In this ...

The microscopic and geomechanical properties of igneous building stones include the level of alteration, presence of micro cracks, peak strength, porosity, proportion of detrimental minerals, etc. Porosity is reportedly of a devastating impact on the peak strength of igneous rocks. The quartz diorite rock samples in this study were selected from five quarries in Natanz, Iran and subject to micr...

The Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP) was a mast-mounted instrument on the Mars Pathfinder lander which landed on Mars’ Ares Vallis floodplain on July 4, 1997. During the 83 sols of Mars Pathfinders landed operations, the IMP collected over 16,600 images. Multispectral images were collected using twelve narrowband filters at wavelengths between 400 and 1000 nm in the visible and near infrared (V...

Wettability alteration is one of the most important methods for oil recovery from sandstone and carbonate reservoirs. The effects of salinity, pH, temperature, and chemicals such as surfactants and fatty acids on the alteration of the wettability were described in previous studies. In recent years, attention has been directed to nanoparticles as a wettability alteration agent. The effect of som...

available online at http://meteoritics.org Thermodynamic constraints on fayalite formation on parent bodies of chondrites Mikhail Yu. ZOLOTOV1*, Mikhail V. MIRONENKO2, and Everett L. SHOCK1, 3 1School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287–1404, USA 2Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Kosygin Street ...

Magnetic records in sedimentary sequences are often used as paleoclimate proxies. Climate-specific alteration of magnetite during rock weathering the catchment might contribute to proxy variations sediment sinks. In an actualistic study, we investigated effects using weathered pebble material on basaltic parent rock. We collected samples from Deccan basalts (India) across a large difference mea...

Introduction: The origin of secondary carbonate minerals in the oldest known martian meteorite ALH84001 have been intensely debated in the literature, with widely different thermal origins considered: ranging from hydrothermal alteration (possibly impactinduced) [e.g. 1, 2, 3] to low temperature alteration conditions [e.g. 4, 5, 6]. Recent isotopic evidence suggests the carbonates precipitated ...

Chemical analysis of the Water-rock interaction showed that hydrothermal altered rock contains large amount of fluoride. Considering that alteration has mainly occurred at the fractures’ cleavages, the aim of this paper is to investigate the change of the mineral composition between the cleavages and other parts of the granite surfaces. Scanning electron microscope with energy-dispersive spectr...