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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
- Martian Meteorites
- Volatiles (including water) in Martian magmas: From the
mantle to the regolith.
- ALH84001. The only sample of ancient Martian crust. Its interactions
with water, and terrestrial analogs.
- Astrobiology: Alteration of rocks and minerals as
microbial energy and food.
- Moon Rocks
- Lunar Highlands plutonic and metamorphic rocks.
- Martian Geology
- Co-I for the CheMin instrument on MSL 09.
- Formation of Gully Landforms.
RECENT PAPERS
Please email me for reprints!
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., in press.
Pieters, C., Hiroi, T., Klima, R.L., Dyar, M.D., Lane, M.D., Treiman A.H., Noble, S.K.,
Sunshine, J., and Bishop, J.L. (2008) Martian dunite NWA 2737: Integrated spectroscopic
analyses of brown olivine. J. Geophys. Res. Planets 113, doi:10.1029/2007JE002939.
vJ. Geophys. Res. Planets. 113, doi:10.1029/2007JE002939, Preprint.
Treiman A.H. and Irving A.J. (2008) Petrology of the nakhlite (martian) meteorite Norwthwest Africa
(NWA) 998, Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 43, in press. Preprint.
Maloy A.K. and Treiman A.H. (2007) Evaluation of multispectral image classification routines for
determining the modal mineralogy of rocks in thin section. American Mineralogist 96, 1781-1788.
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.
Treiman A.H., Dyar M.D, McCanta M., Pieters C.M., Hiroi T., Lane M.D., and Bishop J. (2007)
Martian dunite NWA 2737: Petrographic constraints geological history, shock events, and
olivine color. J. Geophys. Res. 112, E04002, doi:10.1029/2006JE002777
Preprint.
MAJOR EDUCATION ACTIVITIES
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