Publications

Peer-reviewed publications

  1. Saper, L.M., Baker, M.B., Brounce, M., Hughes, E.C., Hofmann, A.E., Stolper, E.M. (2024) Experimental constraints on Fe and S redox equilibria and kinetics in basaltic melt inclusions. Geochimica et Coscmochimica Acta https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2024.07.018
  2. Saper, L.M., Liu, Y., Ma, C., Kipp, M.A., Burney, D., Tissot, F.L.H., Young, E., Farley, K.A., Eiler, J.M., Bucholz, C. (in review) Chemical, isotopic (O, He, U), and petrological characteristics of a slowly cooled enriched gabbroic shergottite, Northwest Africa 13134. Meteoritics and Planetary Science
  3. Saper, L.M., Brounce, M.J., Cao, R., Hughes, E.C., Bromiley, G.D. (in prep) MORB-like primary magmatic S isotope composition of the Troodos Ophiolite and evidence for sulfide-saturation in primary melts.
  4. Saper, L.M., Brounce, M., Woelki, D., Cao, R., Bromiley, G. (2024) Variable oxidizing capacity of slab-derived fluids: insights from Fe and S speciation in glasses from the Troodos Ophiolite. Earth and Planetary Sciences Letters 627 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118560
  5. Hughes, E.C., Liggins, P., Saper, L.M., Stolper, E.M. (2024) The effects of oxygen fugacity and sulfur on the pressure of vapor-saturation of magma. American Mineralogist, 109(3) https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2022-8739
  6. Saper, L.M., Baker M.B., Stolper, E.M. (2022) Fe2+-Mg partitioning between olivine and liquid at low oxygen fugacity: an experimental and thermodynamic framework. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 177(94) https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-022-01955-0
  7. Hughes, E.C., Saper, L.M., Liggins, P., Stolper, E.M. (2022) The sulfur solubility minimum and maximum in silicate melt. The Journal of the Geological Society: Sulfur in the Earth System. https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2021-125
  8. Richter, F., Saper, L.M., Villeneuve, J., Chaussidon, M., Watson, B.E., Davis, A.M., Mendybaev, R.A., Simon, S.S (2021) Reassessing the thermal history of martian meteorite Shergotty and lunar mare basalt Apollo 15555 using kinetic isotope fractionation of zoned minerals. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (2021), doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2020.11.002.
  9. Saper, L.M., Stolper, E.M. (2020) Controlled cooling-rate experiments on olivine-hosted melt inclusions: chemical diffusion and quantification of eruptive cooling rates on Hawaii and Mars. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 21, doi: 10.1029/2019GC008772
  10. Saper, L.M., Liang, Y. (2014) Formation of plagioclase-bearing peridotite and plagioclase-bearing wehrlite and gabbro suite through reactive crystallization: an experimental study. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology,167:985, doi: 10.1007/s00410-014-0985-7
  11. Dundas, C.M., Byrne, S., McEwen, A.S., Mellon, M.T., Kennedy, M.R., Daubar, I.J., Saper, L.M. (2014) HiRISE observations of new impact craters exposing Martian ground ice. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 119, 109-127, doi: 10.1002/2013JE004482
  12. Saper, L.M., Mustard, J.F. (2013) Extensive linear ridge networks in Nili Fossae and Nilosyrtis, Mars: Implications for fluid flow in the ancient crust. Geophysical Research Letters, 40, 245-249, doi: 10.1002/grl/50106
  13. Bishop, J.L., Loizeau, D., McKeown, N.K., Saper, L., Darby Dyar, M., Des Marais, D.J., Parente, M., Murchie, S.L. (2013) What the ancient phyllosilicates at Mawrth Vallis can tell us about possible habitability on early Mars. Planetary and Space Science, 86, 130-149, doi: 10.1016/j.pss.2013.05.006

MSL Science Team Publications

  1. Bish, D.L., Blake, D., Vaniman, D., Chipera, S., Morris, R., Ming, D., Treiman, A., Sarrazin, P., Morrison, S., Downs, R., MSL Science Team, 2013. X-ray diffraction results from Mars Science Laboratory: Mineralogy of Rocknest at Gale crater. Science 341, 1238932.
  2. Blake, D.F., Morris, R.V., Kocurek, G., Morrison, S., Downs, R.T., Bish, D., Ming, D., Edgett, K., Rubin, D., Goetz, W., MSL Science Team, 2013. Curiosity at Gale crater, Mars: Characterization and analysis of the Rocknest sand shadow. Science 341, 1239505.
  3. Farley, K.A., Malespin, C., Mahaffy, P., Grotzinger, J.P., Vasconcelos, P.M., Milliken, R., Malin, M., Edgett, K., Pavlov, A.A., Hurowitz, J.A., MSL Science Team, 2014. In situ radiometric and exposure age dating of the Martian surface. Science 343, 1247166.
  4. Leshin, L., Mahaffy, P.R., Webster, C., Cabane, M., Coll, P., Conrad, P., Archer Jr, P., Atreya, S., Brunner, A., Buch, A., MSL Science Team, 2013. Volatile, isotope, and organic analysis of martian fines with the Mars Curiosity rover. Science 341, 1238937.
  5. Mahaffy, P., Webster, C., Stern, J., Brunner, A., Atreya, S., Conrad, P., Domagal-Goldman, S., Eigenbrode, J., Flesch, G.J., Christensen, L.E., MSL Science Team, 2015. The imprint of atmospheric evolution in the D/H of Hesperian clay minerals on Mars. Science 347, 412–414.
  6. Mahaffy, P.R., Webster, C.R., Atreya, S.K., Franz, H., Wong, M., Conrad, P.G., Harpold, D., Jones, J.J., Leshin, L.A., Manning, H., MSL Science Team, 2013. Abundance and isotopic composition of gases in the Martian atmosphere from the Curiosity rover. Science 341, 263–266.
  7. McLennan, S.M., Anderson, R., Bell III, J., Bridges, J.C., Calef III, F., Campbell, J.L., Clark, B., Clegg, S., Conrad, P., Cousin, A., MSL Science Team, 2014. Elemental geochemistry of sedimentary rocks at Yellowknife Bay, Gale crater, Mars. Science 343, 1244734.
  8. Meslin, P.-Y., Gasnault, O., Forni, O., Schröder, S., Cousin, A., Berger, G., Clegg, S., Lasue, J., Maurice, S., Sautter, V., MSL Science Team, 2013. Soil diversity and hydration as observed by ChemCam at Gale Crater, Mars. Science 341, 1238670.
  9. Ming, D.W., Archer Jr, P., Glavin, D., Eigenbrode, J., Franz, H., Sutter, B., Brunner, A., Stern, J., Freissinet, C., McAdam, A., MSL Science Team, 2014. Volatile and organic compositions of sedimentary rocks in Yellowknife Bay, Gale Crater, Mars. Science 343, 1245267.
  10. Stolper, E., Baker, M., Newcombe, M., Schmidt, M., Treiman, A., Cousin, A., Dyar, M., Fisk, M., Gellert, R., King, P., MSL Science Team, 2013. The petrochemistry of Jake_M: A Martian mugearite. Science 341, 1239463.
  11. Vaniman, D.T., Bish, D., Ming, D., Bristow, T., Morris, R., Blake, D., Chipera, S., Morrison, S., Treiman, A., Rampe, E., MSL Science Team, 2014. Mineralogy of a mudstone at Yellowknife Bay, Gale crater, Mars. Science 343, 1243480.
  12. Webster, C.R., Mahaffy, P.R., Atreya, S.K., Flesch, G.J., Farley, K.A., Team, M.S., Kemppinen, O., Bridges, N., Johnson, J.R., Minitti, M., MSL Science Team, 2013. Low upper limit to methane abundance on Mars. Science 342, 355–357.
  13. Williams, R.M., Grotzinger, J.P., Dietrich, W., Gupta, S., Sumner, D., Wiens, R., Mangold, N., Malin, M., Edgett, K., Maurice, S., MSL Science Team, 2013. Martian fluvial conglomerates at Gale crater. Science 340, 1068–1072.