@article{a6df3116d9634ab69943beb41dffba5f,
title = "The petrochemistry of Jake-M: A martian mugearite",
abstract = "{"}Jake-M,{"} the first rock analyzed by the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer instrument on the Curiosity rover, differs substantially in chemical composition from other known martian igneous rocks: It is alkaline (>15% normative nepheline) and relatively fractionated. Jake-M is compositionally similar to terrestrial mugearites, a rock type typically found at ocean islands and continental rifts. By analogy with these comparable terrestrial rocks, Jake-M could have been produced by extensive fractional crystallization of a primary alkaline or transitional magma at elevated pressure, with or without elevated water contents. The discovery of Jake-M suggests that alkaline magmas may be more abundant on Mars than on Earth and that Curiosity could encounter even more fractionated alkaline rocks (for example, phonolites and trachytes).",
author = "Stolper, {E. M.} and Baker, {M. B.} and Newcombe, {M. E.} and Schmidt, {M. E.} and Treiman, {A. H.} and A. Cousin and Dyar, {M. D.} and Fisk, {M. R.} and R. Gellert and King, {P. L.} and L. Leshin and S. Maurice and McLennan, {S. M.} and Minitti, {M. E.} and G. Perrett and S. Rowland and V. Sautter and Wiens, {R. C.} and {MSL Science Team} and Osku Kemppinen and Nathan Bridges and Johnson, {Jeffrey R.} and David Cremers and Bell, {James F.} and Lauren Edgar and Jack Farmer and Austin Godber and Meenakshi Wadhwa and Danika Wellington and Ian McEwan and Claire Newman and Mark Richardson and Antoine Charpentier and Laurent Peret and Jennifer Blank and Gerald Weigle and Shuai Li and Ralph Milliken and Kevin Robertson and Vivian Sun and Christopher Edwards and Bethany Ehlmann and Kenneth Farley and Jennifer Griffes and John Grotzinger and Hayden Miller and Cedric Pilorget and Mildred Martin and Muller, {Jan Peter} and Anna Brunner and {ten Kate}, {Inge Loes}",
year = "2013",
month = sep,
day = "27",
doi = "10.1126/science.1239463",
language = "English",
volume = "341",
journal = "Science",
issn = "0036-8075",
publisher = "American Association for the Advancement of Science",
number = "6153",
}