Boom boom pow: shock-facilitated aqueous alteration and evidence for two shock events in the Martian nakhlite meteorites

• Published in: Science Advances
• Main Authors: Daly, Luke, Lee, Martin R., Piazolo, Sandra, Griffin, Samantha, Bazargan, Mohsen, Campanale, Fabrizio, Chung, Peter, Cohen, Benjamin E., Pickersgill, Annemarie, Hallis, Lydia J., Trimby, Patrick W., Baumgartner, Raphael, Forman, Lucy V., Benedix, Gretchen K.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2019
• Subjects: Miller Range; permafrost
• Online Access: http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/188076/; http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/188076/7/188076.pdf

Nakhlite meteorites are ~1.4 to 1.3 Ga old igneous rocks, aqueously altered on Mars ~630 Ma ago. We test the theory that water-rock interaction was impact driven. Electron backscatter diffraction demonstrates that the meteorites Miller Range 03346 and Lafayette were heterogeneously deformed, leading...