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Peer Reviewed Publications

  1. Treiman, A.H., Filiberto, J., and Vander Kaaden, K. E (2021) Near-infrared Reflectance of Rocks at High Temperature: Preliminary Results and Implications for Near-infrared Emissivity of Venus's Surface. The Planetary Science Journal, 2:43 (10pp), https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/abd546.

  2. Vander Kaaden, K.E., McCubbin, F. M., Turner, A. A., and Ross, D. K. (2020) Constraints on the abundances of carbon and silicon in Mercury's core from experiments in the Fe-Si-C system. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. DOI: 10.1029/2019JE006239.

  3. Rowland, R. L., Lavina, B., Vander Kaaden, K.E., Danielson, L. R., and Burnley, P. C. (2020) Thermal Analysis, Compressibility, and Decomposition of Synthetic Bastnäsite-(La) to Lanthanum Oxyfluoride. Minerals. 10(212) DOI: 10.3390/min10030212.

  4. Vander Kaaden, K.E., McCubbin, F. M., Byrne, P. K., Chabot, N. L., Ernst, C. M., Johnson, C. L., Thompson, M. S. (2019) Revolutionizing Our Understnading of the Solar System via Sample Return from Mercury. Space Sci Rev. 215:49 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-019-0614-x.

  5. Udry, A., Wilbur, Z.E., Rahib, R.R., McCubbin, F.M., Vander Kaaden, K.E., McCoy, T.J., Ziegler, K., Gross, J., DeFelice, C., Combs, L., Turrin, B.D. (2019) Reclassification of four aubrites as enstatite chondrite impact melts: Potential geochemical analogues for Mercury. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 1-26 doi: 10.1111/maps.13252.

  6. Greenwood, J.P., Karato, S-I., Vander Kaaden, K.E., Pahlevan, K., and Usui, T. (2018) Water and Volatile Inventories of Mercury, Venus, the Moon, and Mars. Space Science Reviews, 214:92, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-018-0526-1.

  7. McCubbin, F.M., Phillips, B.L., Adcock, C.T., Tait, K.T., Steele, A., Vaughn, J.S., Fries, M.D., Atudorei, V., Vander Kaaden, K.E., Hausrath, E.M. (2018) Discreditation of bobdownsite and the establishment of criteria for the identification of minerals with essential monofluorophosphate (PO3F2-). American Mineralogist, in press DOI: https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2018-6440.

  8. Vander Kaaden, K.E., McCubbin, F.M., Nittler, L.R., Peplowski, P.N., Weider, S.Z., Frank, E.A., McCoy, T.J.  (2017) Geochemistry, Mineralogy, and Petrology of the Mercurian Surface with Insights into the Mercurian Mantle Icarus, 285, 155–168.

  9. McCubbin, F.M., Vander Kaaden, K.E., Peplowski, P.N., Bell, A.S., Nittler, L.R., Boyce, J.W., Evans, L.G., Keller, L.P., Elardo, S.M., McCoy, T.J. (2017) A Low O/Si Ratio on the Surface of Mercury: Evidence for Silicon Smelting? JGR: Planets, 122. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JE005367.

  10. Vander Kaaden, K.E., and McCubbin, F.M. (2016) The origin of boninites on Mercury: An experimental study of the northern volcanic plains lavas. GCA, 173, 246–263.

  11. McCubbin, F. M., Vander Kaaden, K.E., Tartese, R., Klima, R. L., Liu, Y. Mortimer, J.,Barnes, J.J., Shearer, C.K., Treiman, A.H., Lawrence, D.J., Elardo, S.M., Hurley, D.M., Boyce, J.W., and Anand, M. (2015) Magmatic volatiles (H, C, N, F, S, Cl) in the lunar mantle, crust, and regolith: Abundances, distributions, processes, and reservoirs. American Mineralogist, 100(8–9), 1668-1707 DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.2138/am-2015-4934.

  12. McCubbin, F.M., Vander Kaaden, K.E., Tartese, R., Boyce, J.W., Mikhail, S., Whitson,   E.S., Bell, A.S., Anand, M., Franchi, I.A., Wang, J., and Hauri, E.H. (2015) Experimental investigation of F, Cl, and OH partitioning between apatite and Fe-rich basaltic melt at 1.0-1.2 GPa and 950-1000 °C. American Mineralogist, 100(8–9), 1790-1802. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2138/am-2015–5233.

  13. Elardo, S.M., Shearer, C.K., Vander Kaaden, K.E., McCubbin, F., and Bell, A.S. (2015) Basalt petrogenesis in a cooling Moon: Experimental constraints from the youngest known lunar magmas. EPSL, 422, 126–137.

  14. Vander Kaaden, K.E., and McCubbin, F.M. (2015) Exotic Crust Formation on Mercury:Consequences of a Shallow, FeO-poor mantle. JGR-Planets, 120, 195–209.

  15. Vander Kaaden, K.E., Agee, C.B., McCubbin, F.M. (2015) Density and Compressibility of the molten lunar picritic glasses: Implications for the roles of Ti and Fe in the   structures of silicate melts. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 149, 1–20.

  16. McCubbin, F.M., Hauri, E.H., Elardo, S.M., Vander Kaaden, K.E., Wang, J., Shearer, C.K. (2012) Hydrous melting of the Martian mantle produced both depleted and enriched Shergottites. Geology doi: 10.1130/G33242.1.

  17. McCubbin, F.M., Riner, M.A., Vander Kaaden, K.E., Burkemper, L.K. (2012) Is Mercury a volatile-rich planet? Geophysical Research Letters, 39, L09202, doi:10.1029/2012GL051711.

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