Elemental composition of the martian crust
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Mars Matters: Several decades of exploration by orbiting and in situ spacecraft, together with analysis of martian meteorites, have resulted in a wealth of data on the chemical composition of Mars' crust. McSween et al. (p. 736 ) review these data, which help infer the planet's geological history, discrediting previous ideas suggesting Mars had a wet mantle—similar to that of Earth—and cautioning that martian meteorites are not representative of the planet's crust.
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The soil itself has a basaltic composition, derived from a globally basaltic crust.
“The soil itself has a basaltic composition (Yen et al., 2005; Ming and Morris, 2017), derived from a globally basaltic crust (McSween et al., 2009).”
From Mars global simulant MGS-1: A Rocknest-based open standard for basaltic martian regolith simulants (2019) · cites this paper as McSween et al., 2009
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- Authors
- McSween, H. Y., Taylor, G. J., & Wyatt, M. B.
- Affiliations
- Planetary Geosciences Institute and Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996–1410, USA.
- University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (US)
- Brown University (US)
- ORCID
- Taylor, G. Jeffrey
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2009-05-08
- Volume
- 324
- Issue
- 5928
- Pages
- 736-739
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2022389584
- Cited by
- 506
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 35 · 2025: 30 · 2024: 24 · 2023: 19 · 2022: 30 · 2021: 54 · 2020: 42 · 2019: 21 · 2018: 26 · 2017: 27 · 2016: 22 · 2015: 33 · 2014: 32 · 2013: 36 · 2012: 28
- FWCI
- 11.95
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Planetary Science and Exploration
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Astro and Planetary Science
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geophysics › Geological and Geochemical Analysis
- Keywords
- Martian crust, tholeiitic basalt, partial melting, mantle recycling, Martian meteorites, crustal geochemistry, mantle composition, siliceous rocks
- MeSH terms
- Elements, Extraterrestrial Environment, Hydrogen, Silicates, Spacecraft, Mars, Meteoroids
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