List of works by Harold Y. McSween

A Thermal Model for the Differentiation of Asteroid 4 Vesta, Based on Radiogenic Heating

article

A new type of chondritic meteorite found in lunar soil

scientific article

A petrogenetic model of the relationships among achondritic meteorites

article from Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta published in April 1979

Alkaline volcanic rocks from the Columbia Hills, Gusev crater, Mars

scholarly article

Allan Hills 77005: A New Meteorite Type Found in Antarctica

article from Science published in June 1979

Ammoniated phyllosilicates with a likely outer Solar System origin on (1) Ceres.

scientific article

An integrated view of the chemistry and mineralogy of martian soils

scientific article published on July 2005

Application of the MELTS algorithm to Martian compositions and implications for magma crystallization

scientific article

Are carbonaceous chondrites primitive or processed? A review

article

Basaltic Meteorites

article from Scientific American published in June 1980

Basaltic Rocks Analyzed by the Spirit Rover in Gusev Crater

scientific article published in Science

Basaltic rocks analyzed by the Spirit Rover in Gusev Crater

scientific article

Bright carbonate deposits as evidence of aqueous alteration on (1) Ceres

scientific article

Brimstone on Mars

scientific article published in Nature

CV and CM chondrite impact melts

scientific article

Carbonaceous chondrites as analogs for the composition and alteration of Ceres

scholarly article

Ceres's global and localized mineralogical composition determined by Dawn's Visible and Infrared Spectrometer (VIR)

scholarly article

Characterization and petrologic interpretation of olivine-rich basalts at Gusev Crater, Mars

scientific article published in 2006

Chemical, multispectral, and textural constraints on the composition and origin of rocks at the Mars Pathfinder landing site

article

Chemistry and mineralogy of outcrops at Meridiani Planum

scholarly article by B.C. Clark et al published November 2005 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Chondritic models of 4 Vesta: Implications for geochemical and geophysical properties

scholarly article

Color and albedo heterogeneity of Vesta from Dawn

scientific article

Comment: The potential science and engineering value of samples delivered to Earth by Mars sample return

scholarly article

Composition of the Rheasilvia basin, a window into Vesta's interior

article

Compositional variations in the Vestan Rheasilvia basin

article

Concentrations of potassium and thorium within Vesta’s regolith

scholarly article by T.H. Prettyman et al published October 2015 in Icarus

Constraints on the composition and petrogenesis of the Martian crust

scientific article

Correction to “SNC meteorites: Clues to Martian petrologic evolution?”

scientific article

Correlated alteration effects in CM carbonaceous chondrites

scientific article

Corrigendum to “Delivery of dark material to Vesta via carbonaceous chondritic impacts” [Icarus 221 (2012) 544–559]

scientific article published in March 2013

Cryogenic flow features on Ceres: Implications for crater-related cryovolcanism

scholarly article

Crystallization kinetics of olivine-phyric shergottites

scientific article

Dacite formation on Vesta: Partial melting of the eucritic crust

scientific article published in June 2017

Dark material on Vesta from the infall of carbonaceous volatile-rich material.

scientific article

Dawn Arrives at Ceres: Exploration of a Small Volatile-Rich World ⬇️

conference paper published in 2016

Dawn Discovery mission to Vesta and Ceres: Present status

scientific article (publication date: 2006)

Dawn arrives at Ceres: Exploration of a small, volatile-rich world ⬇️

scientific article published on September 2016

Dawn at Vesta: testing the protoplanetary paradigm.

scientific article published in May 2012

Dawn completes its mission at 4 Vesta

scholarly article

Dawn's Exploration of Vesta's South Pole Basin — Where's the Mantle? ⬇️

conference paper published in 2012

Dawn: A journey in space and time

Dawn; the Vesta-HED connection; and the geologic context for eucrites, diogenites, and howardites

scholarly article

Dawn’s Gamma Ray and Neutron Detector

Dawn’s Gamma Ray and Neutron Detector

Delivery of dark material to Vesta via carbonaceous chondritic impacts

article

Determination of Martian meteorite lithologies and mineralogies using vibrational spectroscopy

article

Differentiation and magmatic history of Vesta: Constraints from HED meteorites and Dawn spacecraft data

scientific article published in December 2019

Distribution and variation of plagioclase compositions on Mars

scholarly article

Distribution of Phyllosilicates on Ceres ⬇️

conference paper published in 2016

Distribution of phyllosilicates on the surface of Ceres

scientific article published on September 2016

ELEMENTAL CONSTRAINTS ON CERES' EVOLUTION

Elemental Mapping by Dawn Reveals Exogenic H in Vesta's Regolith

scientific article published in Science

Elemental composition and mineralogy of Vesta and Ceres: Distribution and origins of hydrogen-bearing species

article

Elemental composition of the Martian crust

scientific article

Erratum: An integrated view of the chemistry and mineralogy of martian soils

scientific article published in Nature

Erratum: Evidence for magmatic evolution and diversity on Mars from infrared observations

scientific article published in Nature

Erratum: High-velocity collisions from the lunar cataclysm recorded in asteroidal meteorites

scholarly article published in Nature Geoscience

Evidence for life in a martian meteorite?

scientific article

Evidence for magmatic evolution and diversity on Mars from infrared observations

scientific article published on July 2005

Evidence from Opportunity's Microscopic Imager for water on Meridiani Planum

scientific article

Exploring fractionation models for Martian magmas

scientific article

Exploring the asteroid belt with ion propulsion: Dawn mission history, status and plans

Extensive and ancient feldspathic crust detected across north Hellas rim, Mars: Possible implications for primary crust formation

scientific article published on 11 July 2022

Extensive water ice within Ceres' aqueously altered regolith: Evidence from nuclear spectroscopy

scientific article published on 15 December 2016

Field reconnaissance geologic mapping of the Columbia Hills, Mars, based on Mars Exploration Rover Spirit and MRO HiRISE observations

scholarly article

Formation of Evolved Rocks at Gale Crater by Crystal Fractionation and Implications for Mars Crustal Composition

scientific article

Geochemical and mineralogical indicators for aqueous processes in the Columbia Hills of Gusev crater, Mars

scholarly article

Geomorphological evidence for transient water flow on Vesta

article

Geoscientific Mapping of Vesta by the Dawn Mission ⬇️

conference paper published in 2011

Grain size and hydrodynamic sorting controls on the composition of basaltic sediments: Implications for interpreting martian soils

scientific article published in August 2015

Grosvenor Mountains 95 howardite pairing group: Insights into the surface regolith of asteroid 4 Vesta

scholarly article

HED Meteorites and Their Relationship to the Geology of Vesta and the Dawn Mission

High-velocity collisions from the lunar cataclysm recorded in asteroidal meteorites

article by S. Marchi et al published 24 March 2013 in Nature Geoscience

Identification of large (2–10 km) rayed craters on Mars in THEMIS thermal infrared images: Implications for possible Martian meteorite source regions

scholarly article

Identifying cosmic muck

scientific article published in Nature

Identity and emplacement of domical structures in the western Arcadia Planitia, Mars

scholarly article

Igneous Mars: Crust and Mantle Evolution as Seen by Rover Geochemistry, Martian Meteorites, and Remote Sensing ⬇️

conference paper published in 2019

Igneous lithologies on asteroid (4) Vesta mapped using gamma-ray and neutron data

scientific article

Implications for early hydrothermal environments on Mars through the spectral evidence for carbonation and chloritization reactions in the Nili Fossae region

article

Insights into Ceres's evolution from surface composition

scholarly article

Localization and physical properties experiments conducted by Spirit at Gusev Crater

scientific article

Localized aliphatic organic material on the surface of Ceres.

scientific article published on February 2017

Magmatic history and parental melt composition of olivine-phyric shergottite LAR 06319: Importance of magmatic degassing and olivine antecrysts in Martian magmatism

article

Mapping Vesta: A Geological Overview ⬇️

conference paper published in 2012

Mars Exploration Rover Geologic traverse by the Spirit rover in the Plains of Gusev Crater, Mars

scholarly article by L.S. Crumpler et al published 2005 in Geology

Martian basalt (shergottite) Queen Alexandra Range 94201 and lunar basalt 15555: A tale of two pyroxenes

scientific article

Martian meteorite Dhofar 019: A new shergottite

Martian meteorites

article

Megascale Impacts in Vesta's South Pole: The Morphologic Constraints ⬇️

conference paper published in 2014

Megascale Impacts into Vesta's South Pole ⬇️

conference paper published in 2013

Metamorphism in the Martian crust

scholarly article

Meteorite vulkanischen Ursprungs

article

Meteorites from Mars, via Antarctica

academic chapter

Mg‐rich harzburgites from Vesta: Mantle residua or cumulates from planetary differentiation?

scientific article published on 3 January 2018

Mineralogic and compositional properties of Martian soil and dust: Results from Mars Pathfinder

article

Mineralogical analysis of the Oppia quadrangle of asteroid (4) Vesta: Evidence for occurrence of moderate-reflectance hydrated minerals

Mineralogy of Martian atmospheric dust inferred from thermal infrared spectra of aerosols

scholarly article

Mineralogy of volcanic rocks in Gusev Crater, Mars: Reconciling Mössbauer, Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer, and Miniature Thermal Emission Spectrometer spectra

scholarly article

Mixing relationships and the effects of secondary alteration in the Wishstone and Watchtower Classes of Husband Hill, Gusev Crater, Mars

scholarly article

Mixing relationships in the Martian regolith and the composition of globally homogeneous dust

scientific article published in June 2000

Morphology and composition of the surface of Mars: Mars Odyssey THEMIS results.

scientific article

Nature and degree of aqueous alteration in CM and CI carbonaceous chondrites

scientific article

Neutron absorption constraints on the composition of 4 Vesta

scholarly article

New constraints on the formation of shergottite Elephant Moraine 79001 lithology A

Nickel on Mars: Constraints on meteoritic material at the surface

scholarly article

Northwest Africa 5790: A previously unsampled portion of the upper part of the nakhlite pile

Olivine and pyroxene from the mantle of asteroid 4 Vesta

scientific article published in May 2015

Olivine in an unexpected location on Vesta’s surface

scientific article published in Nature

Origin of basaltic soils at Gusev crater, Mars, by aeolian modification of impact-generated sediment

scholarly article

Overview of the Mars Pathfinder Mission: Launch through landing, surface operations, data sets, and science results

article by Matthew P. Golombeck et al published 1 April 1999 in Journal of Geophysical Research

Overview of the Opportunity Mars Exploration Rover Mission to Meridiani Planum: Eagle Crater to Purgatory Ripple

scientific article

Overview of the Spirit Mars Exploration Rover Mission to Gusev Crater: Landing site to Backstay Rock in the Columbia Hills

scientific article published in 2006

Pancam multispectral imaging results from the Opportunity Rover at Meridiani Planum

scientific article published on December 2004

Pancam multispectral imaging results from the Spirit Rover at Gusev Crater

scientific article published on August 2004

Petrogenesis of a vitrophyre in the martian meteorite breccia NWA 7034

scientific article

Petrogenesis of olivine-phyric shergottite Yamato 980459, revisited

scientific article

Petrogenesis of shergottite meteorites inferred from minor and trace element microdistributions

scientific article

Petrogenesis of the Elephant Moraine A79001 meteorite: Multiple magma pulses on the shergottite parent body

scholarly article published in August 1983

Petrogenetic relationship between Allan Hills 77005 and other achondrites

scientific article

Petrographic variations among carbonaceous chondrites of the Vigarano type

scientific article published in December 1977

Petrography, mineral chemistry, and petrogenesis of Antarctic Shergottite LEW88516

scientific article

Petrology and Origin of the Shergottite Meteorites

article from Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta published in September 1979

Petrology and chemistry of MIL 03346 and its significance in understanding the petrogenesis of nakhlites on Mars

scholarly article

Petrology and geochemistry of Yamato 984028: a cumulate lherzolitic shergottite with affinities to Y 000027, Y 000047, and Y 000097

scholarly article by Amy J.V. Riches et al published January 2011 in Polar Science

Petrology and geochemistry of olivine-phyric shergottites LAR 12095 and LAR 12240: Implications for their petrogenetic history on Mars.

scientific article published on 21 February 2019

Petrology and trace element geochemistry of Robert Massif 04261 and 04262 meteorites, the first examples of geochemically enriched lherzolitic shergottites

scholarly article by Tomohiro Usui et al published December 2010 in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Petrology and trace element geochemistry of Tissint, the newest shergottite fall

scholarly article by J. Brian Balta et al published 18 December 2014 in Meteoritics & Planetary Science

Petrology on Mars

scientific article published in November 2015

Planetary science: A chunk of ancient Mars

scientific article published on 20 November 2013

Planetary science: Volatility in Martian magmas

scientific article published on 01 March 2009

Planetary science: bedrock formation at Meridiani Planum

scientific article published on September 2006

Presentation of the 2017 Roebling Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America to Edward Stolper

scientific article published in April 2018

Provenance and diagenesis of the evaporite-bearing Burns formation, Meridiani Planum, Mars

scholarly article by Scott M. McLennan et al published November 2005 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Pyroclastic activity at Home Plate in Gusev Crater, Mars

scientific article

QUE94201 shergottite: Crystallization of a Martian basaltic magma

scientific article

Rare earth elements in minerals of the ALHA77005 shergottite and implications for its parent magma and crystallization history

scientific article

Re-evaluation of intercumulus liquid composition and oxidation state for the Shergotty meteorite

scientific article

Reexamining the relationship between Apollinaris Patera and the basalts of the Gusev crater plains, Mars

scientific article published on 16 April 2010

Remotely sensed geology from lander-based to orbital perspectives: Results of FIDO rover May 2000 field tests

scholarly article

Replenishment of near-surface water ice by impacts into Ceres' volatile-rich crust: Observations by Dawn's Gamma Ray and Neutron Detector

scientific article

Rocks at the Mars Pathfinder Landing Site

article by Harold Y. McSween & Scott L. Murchie published 1999 in American Scientist

Rocks of the Columbia Hills

scholarly article

SNC meteorites: Are they Martian rocks?

scholarly article

SNC meteorites: Clues to Martian petrologic evolution?

Shock features in iron-nickel metal and troilite of L-group ordinary chondrites

scientific article published in March 1996

Smaller, better, more: Five decades of advances in geochemistry

scholarly article published 2013

Soil mineralogy at the Mars Exploration Rover landing sites: An assessment of the competing roles of physical sorting and chemical weathering

scholarly article

Soils of Eagle crater and Meridiani Planum at the Opportunity Rover landing site

scientific article

Spacecraft instrument technology and cosmochemistry

scientific article published on 14 March 2011

Spectral evidence for weathered basalt as an alternative to andesite in the northern lowlands of Mars

scientific article

Spectroscopic characterization of mineralogy and its diversity across Vesta.

scientific article

Spirit Mars Rover Mission to the Columbia Hills, Gusev Crater: Mission overview and selected results from the Cumberland Ridge to Home Plate

scholarly article

Structure, stratigraphy, and origin of Husband Hill, Columbia Hills, Gusev Crater, Mars

scholarly article

Surface and crater-exposed lithologic units of the Isidis Basin as mapped by coanalysis of THEMIS and TES derived data products

scholarly article

Surficial deposits at Gusev Crater along Spirit Rover traverses

scientific article

Survival of life on asteroids, comets and other small bodies

scientific article

Textures of the soils and rocks at Gusev Crater from Spirit's Microscopic Imager.

scientific article

Tharsis-sourced relatively dust-free lavas and their possible relationship to Martian meteorites

scientific article published in August 2009

The Opportunity Rover's Athena science investigation at Meridiani Planum, Mars

scientific article

The Rheasilvia Impact Basin on Vesta ⬇️

conference paper published in 2012

The Spirit Rover's Athena science investigation at Gusev Crater, Mars

scientific article

The Tissint Martian meteorite as evidence for the largest impact excavation

scientific article published on January 2013

The contamination of the surface of Vesta by impacts and the delivery of the dark material ⬇️

The geologically recent giant impact basins at Vesta's south pole

scientific article

The origin of Vesta’s crust: Insights from spectroscopy of the Vestoids

scholarly article

The potential science and engineering value of samples delivered to Earth by Mars sample return

scientific article published in March 2019

The rocks of Mars, from far and near

scientific article

The violent collisional history of asteroid 4 Vesta.

scientific article

Thermochemical evolution of the acapulcoite–lodranite parent body: Evidence for fragmentation‐disrupted partial differentiation

scholarly article

Two years at Meridiani Planum: results from the Opportunity Rover

scientific article

Unique, Antique Vesta

scientific article published in 2014

Using HED meteorites to interpret neutron and gamma-ray data from asteroid 4 Vesta

scholarly article

Vesta Collisional History Revealed by Dawn: Building a Vesta Global Crater Catalog ⬇️

conference paper published in 2012

Vesta's shape and morphology.

scientific article

Vestan lithologies mapped by the visual and infrared spectrometer on Dawn

scholarly article

Volcanism or aqueous alteration on Mars?

scientific article published in Nature

Water alteration of rocks and soils on Mars at the Spirit rover site in Gusev crater

scientific article published on July 2005

Water and the composition of Martian magmas

article

Water and the thermal evolution of carbonaceous chondrite parent bodies

article

What we have learned about Mars from SNC meteorites

scientific article

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