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2015 Service Award for Ralph Harvey

scientific article published on 27 July 2015

A Statistical Look at the U.S. Antarctic Meteorite Collection

academic chapter

A comparison of basaltic volcanism in the Cascades and western Mexico: compositional diversity in continental arcs

scientific article published in March 2000

A magma ocean on Vesta: Core formation and petrogenesis of eucrites and diogenites

scholarly article

Accretion and core formation on Mars: molybdenum contents of melt inclusion glasses in three SNC meteorites

scientific article

Activity model for 36 elements in Fe-Ni-Si-S-C liquids with application to terrestrial planet accretion and mantle geochemistry: New data for Ru, Re, Pt, Os, Ti, Nb, and Ta

scientific article published in August 2023

Advanced Curation of Astromaterials for Planetary Science

journal article from 'Space Science Reviews' published in 2019

Ag isotopic and chalcophile element evolution of the terrestrial and martian mantles during accretion: New constraints from Bi and Ag metal-silicate partitioning

scientific article published in December 2020

An experimental study of the oxidation state of vanadium in spinel and basaltic melt with implications for the origin of planetary basalt

scientific article published in October 2006

Angrite meteorites record the onset and flux of water to the inner solar system

scholarly article

Assessment of petrologic subtypes, subgroups, and pairing within CV chondrites in the US Antarctic meteorite collection

scientific article published on 8 December 2022

Association of silica phases as geothermobarometer for eucrites: Implication for two‐stage thermal metamorphism in the eucritic crust

scholarly article

Behavior of Re during Magma Fractionation: an Example from Volcan Alcedo, Galapagos

scientific article published in April 1998

Channel incision in the Rio Atenguillo, Jalisco, Mexico, defined by 36Cl measurements of bedrock

journal article published in 2010

Compatibility of rhenium in garnet during mantle melting and magma genesis

scientific article published on June 1998

Complicated pressure–temperature path recorded in the eucrite Padvarninkai

scholarly article

Contemporaneous eruption of calc-alkaline and alkaline lavas in a continental arc (Eastern Mexican Volcanic Belt): chemically heterogeneous but isotopically homogeneous source

scientific article published on 6 October 2005

Core Formation in Earth's Moon, Mars, and Vesta

scientific article published in December 1996

Correlations of octahedral cations with OH − , O 2− , Cl − , and F − in biotite from volcanic rocks and xenoliths

scientific article published in January 2002

Curating NASA's Extraterrestrial Samples

scientific article published on 16 July 2013

Curating NASA's extraterrestrial samples—Past, present, and future

scientific article published in 2011

Curation and Allocation of Samples in the U.S. Antarctic Meteorite Collection

academic chapter

Curation planning and facilities for asteroid Bennu samples returned by the OSIRIS‐RE x mission

scientific article published in April 2023

Determining the composition of the Earth

scientific article published on March 2002

Diffusion of trace elements in FeNi metal: Application to zoned metal grains in chondrites

scientific article published in June 2005

Distribution of Sb, As, Ge, and In between metal and silicate during accretion and core formation in the Earth

scientific article published in February 2017

Does the Moon Have a Metallic Core? Constraints from Giant Impact Modeling and Siderophile Elements

scientific article published in July 2002

Early accretion of water and volatile elements to the inner Solar System: evidence from angrites

scientific article

Effect of silicon on activity coefficients of Bi, Cd, Sn, and Ag in liquid Fe‐Si, and implications for differentiation and core formation

scientific article published on 4 April 2019

Effect of silicon on activity coefficients of siderophile elements (Au, Pd, Pt, P, Ga, Cu, Zn, and Pb) in liquid Fe: Roles of core formation, late sulfide matte, and late veneer in shaping terrestrial mantle geochemistry

scientific article published in July 2018

Effect of sulfur on siderophile element partitioning between olivine and a primary melt from the martian mantle

scientific article published in March 2022

Effect of water on metal-silicate partitioning of siderophile elements: a high pressure and temperature terrestrial magma ocean and core formation

scientific article published in September 1999

Electrochemical measurements and thermodynamic calculations of redox equilibria in pallasite meteorites: Implications for the eucrite parent body

scientific article published in June 1990

Estimation of trace element concentrations in the lunar magma ocean using mineral- and metal-silicate melt partition coefficients

scholarly article

Experimental constraints on the destabilization of basalt+calcite+anhydrite at high pressure–high temperature and implications for meteoroid impact modeling

scholarly article

Experimental constraints on the volatility of germanium, zinc, and lithium in Martian basalts and the role of degassing in alteration of surface minerals

scientific article published on 22 June 2023

Experimental determination of the metal/silicate partition coefficient of Germanium: Implications for core and mantle differentiation

scientific article

Experimental evidence for sulfur-rich martian magmas: Implications for volcanism and surficial sulfur sources

scientific article published on 30 October 2009

Experimental studies of metal–silicate partitioning of Sb: Implications for the terrestrial and lunar mantles

scientific article published in March 2009

Fayalite oxidation processes in Obsidian Cliffs rhyolite flow, Oregon

scholarly article in American Mineralogist, vol. 100 no. 5-6, May 2015

Flux of carbonate melt from deeply subducted pelitic sediments: Geophysical and geochemical implications for the source of Central American volcanic arc

scholarly article

Genesis of primitive, arc-type basalt: Constraints from Re, Os, and Cl on the depth of melting and role of fluids

scholarly article

Hawaiites and related lavas in the Atenguillo graben, western Mexican Volcanic Belt

scientific article published in December 1992

High bedrock incision rates in the Atenguillo River valley, Jalisco, Western Mexico

scientific article published in April 1997

High pressure effects on the iron–iron oxide and nickel–nickel oxide oxygen fugacity buffers

scientific article

Highly siderophile element (HSE) abundances in the mantle of Mars are due to core formation at high pressure and temperature

scientific article

Highly siderophile elements: Constraints on Earth accretion and early differentiation

scientific article published in 2005

How Mercury can be the most reduced terrestrial planet and still store iron in its mantle

scientific article published in May 2014

Identification and pairing reassessment of unequilibrated ordinary chondrites from four Antarctic dense collection areas

scholarly article

Intraplate mantle oxidation by volatile-rich silicic magmas

scholarly article

Investigation of synthetic Mg1.3V1.7O4 spinel with MgO inclusions: Case study of a spinel with an apparently occupied interstitial site

scientific article published in July 2007

Large-scale mantle metasomatism: a Re–Os perspective

scientific article published in February 2004

Magma Ocean Depth and Oxygen Fugacity in the Early Earth--Implications for Biochemistry.

scientific article

Magmatic fractionation of Hf and W: constraints on the timing of core formation and differentiation in the Moon and Mars

scientific article published in July 2003

Mantle–melt partitioning of the highly siderophile elements: New results and application to Mars

scientific article

Mapping the Iron Oxidation State in Martian Meteorites

conference paper published in 2017

Mechanisms of metal–silicate equilibration in the terrestrial magma ocean

scientific article

Melting of clinopyroxene + magnesite in iron-bearing planetary mantles and implications for the Earth and Mars

scientific article published on 9 July 2013

Melting of the Indarch meteorite (EH4 chondrite) at 1GPa and variable oxygen fugacity: Implications for early planetary differentiation processes

scholarly article

Metal-Silicate Partitioning of Siderophile Elements and Core Formation in the Early Earth

scientific article published in May 2003

Metal/silicate equilibrium in the early Earth—New constraints from the volatile moderately siderophile elements Ga, Cu, P, and Sn

scientific article

Metal–silicate partitioning of U: Implications for the heat budget of the core and evidence for reduced U in the mantle

scientific article

Mineralogy and petrology of dark clasts in the Allan Hills 76005 polymict eucrite pairing group

scientific article published in April 2020

Mineralogy and petrology of the LaPaz Icefield lunar mare basaltic meteorites

scientific article published in November 2005

Mineralogy, petrology, chronology, and exposure history of the Chelyabinsk meteorite and parent body

scholarly article

Modeling siderophile elements during core formation and accretion, and the role of the deep mantle and volatiles

scholarly article in American Mineralogist, vol. 100 no. 5-6, May 2015

Moderately and slightly siderophile element constraints on the depth and extent of melting in early Mars

scientific article

New constraints on the size of chondrite parent bodies

scientific article published in August 2013

Nickel–manganese variability in olivine and Al‐in‐olivine thermometry for olivine‐phyric shergottites

scholarly article

Not so rare Earth? New developments in understanding the origin of the Earth and Moon

scientific article published in October 2007

Nucleosynthetic vanadium isotope heterogeneity of the early solar system recorded in chondritic meteorites

scholarly article by Sune G. Nielsen et al published January 2019 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

OSIRIS-REx Contamination Control Strategy and Implementation.

scientific article

OSIRIS-REx: Sample Return from Asteroid (101955) Bennu

Oxy-substitution and dehydrogenation in mantle-derived amphibole megacrysts

scientific article published in November 1999

Oxygen Isotopic Composition and Chemical Correlations in Meteorites and the Terrestrial Planets

scientific article published in January 2008

Oxygen and carbon stable isotope composition of the weathering Mg-carbonates formed on the surface of the LEW 85320 ordinary chondrite: Revisited

scholarly article

Oxygen fugacity in the Martian mantle controlled by carbon: New constraints from the nakhlite MIL 03346

scholarly article

Partitioning of Mo, P and other siderophile elements (Cu, Ga, Sn, Ni, Co, Cr, Mn, V, and W) between metal and silicate melt as a function of temperature and silicate melt composition

journal article

Partitioning of Ni, Co and V between spinel-structured oxides and silicate melts: Importance of spinel composition

scientific article published in March 2006

Partitioning of Ru, Rh, Pd, Re, Ir, and Au between Cr-bearing spinel, olivine, pyroxene and silicate melts

scientific article published in February 2004

Partitioning of palladium at high pressures and temperatures during core formation

scientific article published on 13 April 2008

Petrology of unique achondrite Queen Alexandra Range 93148: A piece of the pallasite (howardite-eucrite-diogenite?) parent body?

scholarly article

Phase equilibria of a low S and C lunar core: Implications for an early lunar dynamo and physical state of the current core

scientific article published in April 2017

Phase equilibria of phlogopite lamprophyres from western Mexico: biotite-liquid equilibria and P - T estimates for biotite-bearing igneous rocks

scientific article published on 14 February 1996

Pliocene-Quaternary volcanism and faulting at the intersection of the Gulf of California and the Mexican Volcanic Belt

scientific article published in 1995

Prediction of metal–silicate partition coefficients for siderophile elements: An update and assessment of PT conditions for metal–silicate equilibrium during accretion of the Earth

scientific article published in April 2011

Prediction of siderophile element metal-silicate partition coefficients to 20 GPa and 2800°C: the effects of pressure, temperature, oxygen fugacity, and silicate and metallic melt compositions

scientific article published in March 1997

Preservation of ancient impact ages on the R chondrite parent body:40Ar/39Ar age of hornblende-bearing R chondrite LAP 04840

scientific article published in August 2016

Primitive Asteroids

academic chapter

Prokaryotic and Fungal Characterization of the Facilities Used to Assemble, Test, and Launch the OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft

scientific article published on 05 November 2020

Radar properties of comets: Parametric dielectric modeling of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko

scientific article

Re and Os concentrations in arc basalts: The roles of volatility and source region fO2 variations

scientific article published in February 2008

Redox systematics of a magma ocean with variable pressure-temperature gradients and composition

scientific article published on July 9, 2012

Redox systematics of martian magmas with implications for magnetite stability

scientific article published on 28 March 2013

Redox variations in the inner solar system with new constraints from vanadium XANES in spinels

scientific article published in September 2016

Redox-driven exsolution of iron-titanium oxides in magnetite in Miller Range (MIL) 03346 nakhlite: Evidence for post crystallization oxidation in the nakhlite cumulate pile?

scientific article published in November 2014

Remembering Mike Drake

scientific article published in April 2015

Reply to the Comment by Palme et al. on “Prediction of metal–silicate partition coefficients for siderophile elements: An update and assessment of PT conditions for metal–silicate equilibrium during accretion of the Earth”

scientific article published in December 2011

Segregation of Na, K, Rb and Cs into the cores of Earth, Mars and Vesta constrained with partitioning experiments

scientific article published in January 2020

Shock melts in QUE 94411, Hammadah al Hamra 237, and Bencubbin: Remains of the missing matrix?

scholarly article

Siderophile and chalcophile element abundances in shergottites: Implications for Martian core formation

scientific article

Sierra Gorda 009: A new member of the metal‐rich G chondrites grouplet

scholarly article

Source contamination versus assimilation: an example from the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Arc

scientific article published in February 2002

Temperature and oxygen fugacity constraints on CK and R chondrites and implications for water and oxidation in the early solar system

scientific article published in August 2007

Terrestrial planet formation

scientific article published on 27 June 2011

The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 92, 2007 September

scientific article published in September 2007

The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 93, 2008 March

scholarly article

The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 95

scientific article published in March 2009

The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 96, September 2009

scholarly article

The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 97

scholarly article

The Sn isotope composition of chondrites: Implications for volatile element depletion in the Solar System

scholarly article

The W-WO2oxygen fugacity buffer (WWO) at high pressure and temperature: Implications forfO2buffering and metal-silicate partitioning

scientific article

The age and composition of the pre-Cenozoic basement of the Jalisco Block: implications for and relation to the Guerrero composite terrane

scientific article published on 22 August 2013

The crystal structures of synthetic Re- and PGE-bearing magnesioferrite Spinels: Implications for impacts, accretion and the mantle

scientific article published on 15 February 2001

The effect of dissolved water on the oxidation state of iron in natural silicate liquids

scholarly article by Gordon Moore et al published June 1995 in Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

The effect of fO2 on the partitioning and valence of V and Cr in garnet/melt pairs and the relation to terrestrial mantle V and Cr content

scientific article published in August 2011

The formation of nuggets of highly siderophile elements in quenched silicate melts at high temperatures: Before or during the silicate quench?

scientific article published in January 2016

The water and fluorine content of 4 Vesta

scientific article

Trace element chemistry of Cumulus Ridge 04071 pallasite with implications for main group pallasites

scientific article published in July 2009

U, Th, and K partitioning between metal, silicate, and sulfide and implications for Mercury's structure, volatile content, and radioactive heat production

scientific article published in September 2019

Valence and metal/silicate partitioning of Mo: Implications for conditions of Earth accretion and core formation

scientific article published in March 2016

Vesta and Ceres

Volatile element depletion of the Moon-The roles of precursors, post-impact disk dynamics, and core formation

Volatile element signatures in the mantles of Earth, Moon, and Mars: Core formation fingerprints from Bi, Cd, In, and Sn

scientific article published in December 2017

Volcanism and tectonism in western Mexico: A contrast of style and substance

scientific article