Peer Reviewed

Klima, R. L., Pieters, C. M. and M. D. Dyar (2008), Characterization of the 1.2 µm M1 pyroxene band: Extracting cooling history from near-IR spectra of pyroxenes and pyroxene-dominated rocks, Meteoritics and Planetary Science, in press.

Klima, R. L., Pieters, C. M. and M. D. Dyar (2007), Spectroscopy of synthetic Mg-Fe pyroxenes I: Spin-allowed and spin-forbidden crystal field bands in the visible and near-infrared, Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 42, 235-253.

Dyar, M. D., Klima, R. L., Lindsley, D. H. and C. M. Pieters, Effects of differential recoil-free fraction on ordering and site occupancies in Mössbauer spectroscopy of orthopyroxenes (2007), American Mineralogist, 92, 424-428.

Klima, R. L., and C. M. Pieters (2006), Near- and mid-infrared microspectroscopy of the Ronda peridotite, Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets, 111, E01005, -doi: 10.1029/2005JE002537.

Extended Abstracts

Klima, R. L., C. M. Pieters, and M. D. Dyar (2008), Reflectance and Mössbauer spectroscopy of synthetic pyroxenes: Characterizing the cooling histories of HEDs using reflectance spectroscopy, In Lunar and Planetary Science XXXIX, Abstract #2289, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX (CD-ROM).

Klima, R. L. and C. M. Pieters (2008), MGM analysis of pyroxene mineral separates from Apollo 15 and 17, In Lunar and Planetary Science XXXIX, Abstract #1756, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX (CD-ROM).

Klima, R., Pieters, C., Sunshine, J., Hiroi, T.,Bishop, J., Lane, M. Dyar, D. and Treiman, A. (2007), Coordinated spectroscopic and petrologic investigation of LAP 04840: First results of infrared, thermal and raman spectroscopy, In Lunar and Planetary Science XXXVII, Abstract #1710, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX (CD-ROM).

Klima, R. L., C. M. Pieters, and M. D. Dyar (2007), Vis-NIR spectroscopy of synthetic pyroxenes: Calcium bearing pyroxenes and application to the HED meteorites, In Lunar and Planetary Science XXXVIII, Abstract #1733, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX (CD-ROM).

Klima, R. L., C. M. Pieters, and M. D. Dyar (2006), Pyroxene spectroscopy at visible wavelengths: Effects of total iron content on spin forbidden absorption features, In Lunar and Planetary Science XXXVII, Abstract #1637, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX (CD-ROM).

Klima, R. L., C. M. Pieters, and M. D. Dyar (2005), Pyroxene spectroscopy: Effects of major element composition on near, mid and far-infrared spectra, In Lunar and Planetary Science XXXVI, Abstract #1462, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX (CD-ROM).

Klima, R. L., C. M. Pieters, and M. D. Dyar (2005), Capabilities and limitations of infrared reflectance microspectroscopy, In Lunar and Planetary Science XXXVI, Abstract #1459, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX (CD-ROM).

Klima, R. L., and C. M. Pieters (2004), Infrared spectroscopy on a microscopic scale: Investigating the technique of microspectroscopy and its application to the study of a lunar breccia, In Lunar and Planetary Science XXXV, Abstract #1305, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX (CD-ROM).

Pieters, C. M., M. D. Dyar, T. Hiroi, J. Bishop, J. Sunshine, and R. Klima (2004), Pigeonite Masquerading as Olivine at Mars: First Results from Mars Spectroscopy Consortium, In Lunar and Planetary Science XXXV, 1171, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX (CD-ROM).