High pressure-temperature phase equilibrium studies on Martian basalts: Implications for the failure of plate tectonics on Mars

Zhou, Wenyi

High pressure-temperature phase equilibrium studies on Martian basalts: Implications for the failure of plate tectonics on Mars

Wenyi Zhou^1,2, Peter Olson¹, Charles K Shearer², Carl B Agee^1,2, Joshua P Townsend³, Ming Hao¹, Mingqiang Hou^1,4 and Jin Zhang^1,5, (1)University of New Mexico, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Albuquerque, United States, (2)University of New Mexico, Institute of Meteoritics, Albuquerque, United States, (3)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (4)Chinese Academy of Sciences, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, (5)Texas A&M University College Station, Geology & Geophysics, College Station, TX, United States