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Peer-reviewed publications

  1. Saper, L.M., Baker, M.B., Brounce, M., Hughes, E.C., Hofmann, A.E., Stolper, E.M. (in review) Experimental constraints on Fe and S redox equilibria and kinetics in basaltic melt inclusions. Submitted to Geochimica et Coscmochimica Acta.
  2. 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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118560
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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.
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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