Studying Antarctic Ordinary Chondrite (OC) and Miller Range (MIL) Nakhlite Meteorites to Assess Carbonate Formation on Earth and Mars

• Main Author: Evans, Michael Ellis
• Other Authors: Niles, Paul, Chapman, Piers, Slowey, Niall, Shamberger, Kathryn, Grossman, Ethan
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Mars; martian carbonate meteorite; d13C d18O stable isotope; "Ordinary Chondrite"; "Miller Range" Antarctica; Nakhlite; Antarctic; Miller Range; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/161465

Carbonates are found in meteorites collected from Antarctica. The stable isotope composition of these carbonates records their formation environment on either Earth or Mars. The first research objective of this dissertation is to characterize the δ^18O and δ^13C values of terrestrial carbonates form...