My final project for my petrology course at IUPUI. Explores Martian history, geology, volcanism, and chemically compares terrestrial and Martian volcanic rocks.
35. Meteor thin sections
• B
• Adjacent olivine and pyroxene recrystallized in
a melt pocket
• C
• Opaque melt engulfing phosphate grains
• D
• Shock melt pocket
36. Meteor thin
sections
• A
• Deformed pyroxene
• B
• Deformed olivine
• D
• Melt pocket of olivine
• F
• Brecciation in ALH84001
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