Minutes of Workshop on Mars Petrology : Lunar and Planetary Institute 6, 7 and 8 February 1978

Abstract

This workshop brought together, for two and a half days, a divergent group of scientists (representing planetary geophysics, surface chemistry, remote sensing, field petrology and geochemistry, terrestrial igneous petrology - both experimental and observational, mineralogy, Viking team investigators and lunar petrologists and geochemists) to discuss the petrology of Mars in two categories: 1. Igneous petrogenesis 2. Surface weathering. We reviewed observations, discussed the status of current models, and conducted a tutorial in igneous petrology and weathering processes. The most important and tractable problems were identified and approaches to their solutions suggested or defined.