Type
Text
Type
Dissertation
Advisor
Glotch, Timothy D. | Phillips, Brian | McLennan, Scott M. | Hurowitz, Joel | Dyar, M..
Date
2014-12-01
Keywords
Impacts, Mars, Mineralogy, Phyllosilicate, Remote Sensing, Spectroscopy | Geochemistry
Department
Department of Geosciences.
Language
en_US
Source
This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/11401/77655
Publisher
The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.
Format
application/pdf
Abstract
Atomic-scale mineral properties directly control detectable macroscopic properties. These include reactivity and stability as well as characteristic vibrational and electronic spectroscopic features. The connection between structure and spectroscopic properties in minerals is of fundamental importance to the interpretation of remote sensing data, especially in planetary science where ground-truth is very difficult. On planets without plate tectonics such as Mars, meteoritic impacts are a fundamental geologic process known to affect the structure of planetary surfaces, as well as their mineralogy. This work uses a wide range of laboratory spectroscopic techniques to detect and investigate structural change in impact-altered phyllosilicates. The analysis of multiple spectroscopic techniques provides a detailed understanding of the structural change induced in phyllosilicates by impacts. These results are then applied to the remote sensing of a geologically complex region on the martian surface. | 165 pages
Recommended Citation
Friedlander, Lonia Rachael, "Structural Change in Impact Altered Phyllosilicates as Detected by Laboratory Spectroscopy and Applied to the Remote Sensing of the Surface of Mars" (2014). Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions). 3447.
https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/stony-brook-theses-and-dissertations-collection/3447