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Dr. Allan H. Treiman
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Dr. Allan H. Treiman
Senior Staff Scientist, and
LPI Associate Director for Science
Lunar and Planetary Institute
3600 Bay Area Boulevard
Houston, TX 77058
E-mail: treiman(at)lpi.usra.edu
Phone: 281-486-2117
Fax: 281-486-2162
Research in planetary science and geology:
Martian meteorites; petrology and geochemistry of other meteorites; Martian geology.
Science education: meteorites,
Martian geology, spectroscopy, astrobiology.
CURRENT RESEARCH
- The Moon: Rocks and Geology
- Lunar Highlands plutonic and metamorphic rocks.
- Volatiles (especially water and halogens) in lunar magmas.
- Mars
- Martian Meteorites
- Volatiles (especially water and halogens) in Martian magmas: From the
mantle to the regolith.
- Igneous Petrogenesis
- Martian Geology
- Co-I for the CheMin instrument on MSL 09.
- Formation of Gully Landforms.
- Venus
- Venus Geochemistry Workshop.
RECENT PAPERS
Please email me for reprints!
Treiman A.H., Maloy A.K., and Shearer C.K. Jr. (submitted) Magnesian anorthositic granulites in lunar
meteorites in lunar meteorites Allan Hills 81005 and Dhofar 309: Geochemistry and global significance
Meteoritics and Planetary Science, submitted.
Filiberto J., Jackson C., Treiman A.H., and Le L. (2009) Partitioning of Ni between olivine and an iron-rich
basalt: Experiments, partition models, and planetary implications.
American Mineralogist 94, in press.
Preprint.
Filiberto J., and Treiman A.H. (2009) The effect of chlorine on the liquidus of basalt: First results, and
implications for basalt genesis on Mars and Earth.
Chemical Geology 26x, in press.
Preprint.
Hausrath E.M., Treiman A.H., Bish D.L., Blake D., Sarrazin P., Hoehler T., Vicenzi E., Midtkandl I., Steele A.,
and Brantley S.L. (2008) Short and long-term olivine weathering in Svalbard, and implications for Mars,
Astrobiology 8, in press. Preprint.
McCanta M.C, Treiman A.H., Dyar M.D., Alexander C.M.OĠD., Rumble D. III and Essene E.J. (2008) The La Paz
04840 meteorite: Petrology and origin of an amphibole-rich R chondrite.
Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 72, 5757-5780.
Preprint.
Treiman A.H. (2008) Fault-trace ridges, Valles Marineris, Mars: Evidence for large-scale
fault-controlled paleo-groundwater flow. Nature Geosciences 1, doi:10.1038/ngeo131.
Preprint,
Treiman A.H. (2008) Rhönite in Luna 24 pyroxenes: First find from the Moon, and
implications for water in planetary magmas American Mineralogist 93, 488-491
Preprint.
Filiberto J., Treiman A.H., and Le L. (2008) Crystallization experiments on a Gusev Adirondack
basalt composition. Meteorit. Planet. Sci., 43, 1137-1146.
Preprint.
Treiman A.H. and Irving A.J. (2008) Petrology of the nakhlite (martian) meteorite Norwthwest Africa
(NWA) 998, Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 43, 829-854. Preprint.
Treiman A.H. (2007) Geochemistry of Venus' surface: Current limitations as future opportunities.
Chapter in "Exploring Venus as a Terrestrial Planet," AGU Monograph Series 176, 7-22.
Preprint.
MAJOR EDUCATION ACTIVITIES
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