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  • Pernet-Fisher, J.F., J.M.D. Day, G.H. Howarth, V.V. Ryabov, and L.A. Taylor, 2017 Atmospheric outgassing and native-iron formation during carbonaceous sediment-basalt melt interactions. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 460, 201-212.
  • Day, JMD, Qiu, L., ASH, R.D., McDonough, W.F., TENG, F-Z., Rudnick, R.L., and Taylor, L.A., 2016,  Evidence for high-temperature fractionation of lithium isotopes during differentiation of the Moon. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 1–17, doi: 10.1111/maps.12643
  • Howarth, G.H., Liu, Y., Chen, Y., Pernet-FIsher, J.F., and Taylor, L.A. 2016. Postcrystallization metasomatism in shergottites: Evidence from the paired meteorites LAR 06319 and LAR 12011. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 1-12, (Special Issue on Martian Volatiles), doi:10.1111/maps.12576.
  • Jean, M.M., L.A. Taylor, G.H. Howarth, A.H. Peslier, L. Fedele, R.J. Bodnar, Y. Guan, L.S. Doucet, D.A. Ionov, A. Logvinova, and N.V. Sobolev, 2016, Olivine inclusions in Siberian diamonds: Contrasting water and trace-element contents versus mantle xenoliths. Lithos 265. 31-41.
  • Liu, Y., J.P. Baziotis, P.D. Asimov. R.J. Bodnar, and L.A. Taylot, 2016, Mineral chemistry of the Tissint meteorite: Indications of two-stage crystallization in a closed system. Meteoritics & Planetary Sci. 51, 1-23.  doi: 10.1111/maps.12726
  • Ma, C., Tschauner, O., Beckett, J.R., Liu, Y., Rossman, G.R., Sinogeikin, S.V., Smith, J.S., Taylor, L.A., 2016. Ahrensite, γ-Fe2SiO4, a new shock-metamorphic mineral from the Tissint meteorite: implications for the Tissint shock event on Mars, Cosmochim. Acta 184, 240–256, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2016.04.042
  • Norman, M., Taylor, L.A., Shih, C.-Y., and Nyquist, L.E., 2016, Crystal accumulation in a 4.2 Ga lunar impact melt. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 172, 410-429. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2015.09.021.
  • Taylor, L. A., Liu, Y., & Lofgren, G., 2016, Integrity of lunar soil samples. Nature Geosciences 9(2), 87. doi:10.1038/ngeo2637
  • Taylor, L.A., A.M. Logvinova, G.H. Howarth, Y. Liu, A.H. Peslier, G.R. Rossman, Y. Guan, Y. Chen, and N.V. Sobolev, 2016, Low water contents in diamond mineral inclusions: Proto-genetic origin in a dry cratonic lithosphere. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 433,125-132. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2015.10.042
  • Taylor, L.A., Pieters, C.M., Britt, D., 2016. Evaluations of lunar regolith simulants, Planetary Space Science, 126, 1-7.  doi:10.1016/j.pss.2016.04.005
  • Udry, A., McSween, H.Y., Hervig, R.L., & Taylor, L.A., 2016. Lithium isotopes and light lithophile element abundances in shergottites: Evidence for both magmatic degassing and subsolidus diffusion, . Meteoritics and Planetary Science 51, 80-104.  DOI: 10.1111/maps.12582
  • Zhang, A., Itoh, S., Yuritoto, Y., Hsu, W., Wang, R., & Taylor, L.A., 2016. P-O-rich sulfide phase in CM chondrites: Constraints on its origin on the CM parent body, Meteoritics & Planetary Sci. 51, 56- 
  • Barry PH, Hilton DR, Day JMD, Pernet-Fisher JF, Howarth GH, Magna T, Agashev AM, Pokhilenko NP, Pokhilenko LN, Taylor LA. 2015.  Helium isotopic evidence for modification of the cratonic lithosphere during the Permo-Triassic Siberian flood basalt event. Lithos 216-217:73-80
  • Chen Y, Liu Y, Guan Y, Eiler JM, Ma C, Rossman GR, Taylor LA. 2015.  Evidence in Tissint for recent subsurface water on Mars. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 425:55-63. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2015.05.004
  • Day JMD, Barry PH, Hilton DR, Burgess R, Pearson DG, Taylor LA. 2015.  The helium flux from the continents and ubiquity of low-3He/4He recycled crust and lithosphere. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 153:116-133.
  • Day, J.M.D., Corder, C.A., Rumble III, D., Assayag, D., Cartigny, P., and Taylor, L.A., 2015.  Differentiation processes in FeO-rich asteroids revealed by the achondrite Lewis Cliff 88763, Meteoritics and Planetary Science 50, 1750-1766.
  • Furi, E., Barry, P.H., Taylor, L.A., & Marty, B., 2015.  Indigenous nitrogen in the Moon: Constraints from coupled nitrogen–noble gas analyses of mare basalts, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 431, 195-205.
  • Howarth GH, Sobolev NV, Pernet-Fisher JF, Ketcham RA, Maisano JA, Pokhilenko LN, Taylor D, Taylor LA. 2015.  3-D X-ray tomography of diamondiferous mantle eclogite xenoliths, Siberia: A review. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 101:39-67.
  • Howarth, G.H., Pernet-Fisher, J.F., Bodnar, R.J., and Taylor, L.A., 2015, Evidence for the exsolution of Cl-rich fluids in Martian magmas: Apatite petrogenesis in the enriched lherzolite shergottite Noethwest Africa 7755, 2015, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta,166, 234-248. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2015.06.031
  • Logvinova AM, Taylor LA, Fedorova EN, Yelisseyev AP, Wirth R, Howarth G, Reutsky VN, Sobolev NV. 2015.   A unique diamondiferous peridotite xenolith from the Udachnaya kimberlite pipe, Yakutia: role of subduction in diamond formation. Russian Geol. Geophys. 56, 306-320.
  • Ma, C., Tschauner, O., Beckett, J.R., Liu, Y., Rossman, G.R., Zhuravlev, K., Prakapenka, V., Dera, P., and Taylor, L.A., 2015, Tissintite, (Ca,Na,□)AlSi2O6, a highly-defective, shock-induced, high-pressure clinopyroxene in the Tissint martian meteorite.  Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 422, 194-205.
  • McKay, D. S., Cooper, B. L., Taylor, L. A., James, J. T., Thomas-Keprta, K., Pieters, C. M.,  Lee, T. S., 2015.   Physicochemical properties of respirable-size lunar dust. Acta Astronautica, 107, 163-176.
  • Pernet-Fisher, J. F., Howarth, G. H., Pearson, D. G., Woodland, S., Barry, P. H., Pokhilenko, N. P., Taylor, L. A, 2015.  Plume impingement on the Siberian SCLM: Evidence from Re-Os isotope systematics. Lithos, 218-219, 141-154. doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2015.01.010
  • Sobolev, N.V., Dobretsov, N.L., Ohtani, E., Taylor, L.A., Schertl, H.P., and Pal’yanov, Y.N., 2015, Crystallogenesis and Mineralogy: Link to Deep Carbon Cycle. Russian Geol. And Geophys., Spec. Issue, vol 56, issue 1-2.
  • Carmody, L., Taylor, L.A., Thaisen, K.G., Tychkov, N., Bodnar, R.J., Sobolev, N.V., Pokhilenko, L.N., and Pokhilenko, N.P., 2014.  Ilmenite as a Diamond Indicator Mineral in the Siberian Craton: A Tool to Predict Diamond Potential.  Econ. Geol. 109, 431-439.
  • Howarth, G. H., Barry, P. H., Pernet-Fisher, J. F., Baziotis, I. P., Pokhilenko, N. P., Pokhilenko, L. N., Bodnar, R. J., Taylor, L. A., 2014.  Superplume Metasomatism: Evidence from Siberian mantle xenoliths. Lithos. 184-187, 209-224. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2013.09.006
  • Howarth, G.H., Sobolev, N.V., Pernet-Fisher, J.F., Barry, P.B., Penumadu, D., Puplampu, S., Ketcham, R.A., Maisano, J.A., Taylor, D., and Taylor, L.A. 2014.  The secondary origin of diamonds: multi-modal radiation tomography of diamondiferous eclogites. International Geology Review 56, 1172-1180.
  • Howarth, G.H., Pernet-Fisher, J.F., Balta, J.B., Barry, P.B., Bodnar, R.J., and Taylor, L.A. 2014.  Two-stage polybaric formation of the new enriched, pyroxene-oikocrystic, lherzolitic shergottite, NWA 7397. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 49,1812–1830.
  • Pernet-Fisher, J. F., Howarth, G.H., Liu, Y., Barry, P.H., Carmody, L., Valley, J., Bodnar, R.J., Spetsius, Z.V., Taylor, L.A., 2014.  Komsomolskaya Diamondiferous Eclogites: Evidence for Oceanic Crustal Protoliths.  Contrib.  Minera. Petrology 167, 981-999.
  • Pernet-Fisher, J.F., Howarth, G.H., Liu, Y., Chen, Y., Taylor, L.A., 2014.  Estimating the lunar mantle water budget from phosphates: Complications associated with silicate-liquid-immiscibility, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 144, 326–341
  • Barry, P., and L.A. Taylor, 2013.  Age of the Earth. “The Encyclopedia of Scientific Dating Methods”, Springer Publ. Website.
  • Barry, P.H. and Taylor, L.A., 2013, Earth’s Age. In: Rink W., Thompson J. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Scientific Dating Methods: Springer Reference Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 0. doi: 10.1007/SpringerReference_359026 2013-01-22 15:10:29 UTC.
  • Baziotis, I., Y. Liu, P.S. DeCarli, H.J. Melosh, H.Y. McSween, R.J. Bodnar, and L.A. Taylor, 2013.  The Tissint Martian meteorite as evidence for the largest impact excavation. Nature Comm.  DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2414.
  • Carmody, L., Barry, P.H., Shervais J.W., Kluesner, J.W. Taylor, L.A., 2013. Oxygen Isotopes in Subducted Oceanic Crust: A New Perspective from Siberian Diamondiferous Eclogites. Geology, Geophysics, and Geosystems (G-Cubed), 14(9), 3479-3493. 14 doi:10.1002/ggge.20220.
  • Liu, Y., Balta, J.B., Goodrich, C.A., McSweem, H.Y., and Taylor,L.A., 2013.  New constraints on the formation of shergottite Elephant Moraine 79001 lithology A.  Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 108, 1-20.
  • Sedaghatpour, F., F-Z. Teng, Y. Liu, and L.A. Taylor, 2013.  Magnesium isotopic composition of the Moon.  Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 120, 1-16.
  • Singerling, S., A. Modi, B. McFerrin, H.Y. McSween, Taylor, L.A., D. Rumble, and R. Tanaka, 2013.  Two eucrite breccias from Northwest Africa.  Meteor. Planet. Sci. 48, Nr2, E1-E9, doi: 10.1111/maps.12025
  • Singerling, S.A., H.Y. McSween, Jr., and L.A. Taylor, 2013.  Glasses in howardites: Impact melts or pyroclasts?  Meteor. Planet. Sci. 48, No. 5, 715-729.
  • Day, J.M.D., Walker, R.J., Ash, R.D., Liu, Y., Rumble, D., Irving, A.J., Goodrich, C.A., Tait, K., McDonough, W.F., and Taylor, L.A., 2012. Origin of Graves Nunataks 06128 and 06129, brachinites, and brachinite-like achondrites by partial melting of volatile-rich primitive parent bodies. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta, 81, 94-128.
  • Ichimura, A.S., Zent, A.P., Quinn, R.C., Sanchez, M.R., Taylor, L.A., 2012.  Hydroxyl (OH) production on airless planetary bodies: Evidence from H+/D+ ion-beam experiments Earth and Planetary Science Letters 345–348, 90–94.
  • Ichimura, A.S., Zent, A.P., Quinn, R.C., Sanchez, M.R., Taylor, L.A., 2012.  Supplementary Material for Hydroxyl (OH) production on airless planetary bodies: Evidence from H+/D+ ion-beam experiments Earth and Planetary Science Letters 345–348.
  • Liu, Y., Guan, Y., Zhang, Y., Rossman, G.R., Eiler, J.R., and L.A. Taylor, 2012.  Direct measurement of hydroxyl in the lunar regolith and the origin of lunar surface water, Nature Geoscience,  DOI: 10.1038/NGEO1601.
  • Riches, A.V., Day, J.M.D., Walker, W.J., Simonetti, A., Liu, Y., Neal, C.R., and L.A. Taylor, 2012.  Rhenium–Osmium isotope and highly-siderophile-element abundance systematics of angrite meteorites, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 353–354, 208–218.
  • Zhang, A., Taylor, L.A., . R., Wang, R., Li, Q., Li, X., Patchen, A., and Liu, Y.,  2012. Thermal history of Apollo 12 granite and KREEP-rich rock:Clues from Pb/Pb ages of zircon in lunar breccia 12013, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 95, 1–14
  • Basu Sarbadhikari, A., C.A. Goodrich, Y. Liu, J.M.D. Day, and L.A. Taylor.  2011, Evidence for heterogeneous enriched shergottite mantle sources in Mars from olivine-hosted melt inclusions in Larkman Nunatak 06319. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2011.09.001
  • Boardman, J., C.M. Pieters, R.O. Green, S.R. Lundeen, P. Varanasi, J. Nettles, N. Petro, P. Isaacson, S. Besse, and L.A. Taylor, 2011, Measuring Moonlight: An Overview of the Spatial Properties, Lunar Coverage, Selenolocation and Related Level 1B Products of the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (2011) , J. Geophys. Res.
  • Cheek, L.C., Pieters, C.M., Boardman, J.W., Clark, R.N., Combe, J.P., Head, J.W., Isaacson, P.J.,  McCord, T.B., Moriarty, D., Nettles, J.W., Petro, N.E., Sunshine, J.M., and Taylor, L.A., 2011.  Goldschmidt crater and the Moon’s north polar region: Results from the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3), ), Jour. Geophy. Res., 116, E00G02, doi:10.1029/2010JE003702.
  • Dhinga, D., C.M. Pieters, J.W. Boardman, J.W. Head, P.J. Isaacson, and L.A. Taylor, 2011 Compositional diversity at Theophilis Crater: Understanding the geological context of Mg-spinel bearing central peaks.  J. of Geophys. Res. Lett. 38, L11201, doi:10.1029/2011GL047314.
  • Dhingra, D., L.A. Taylor + 6 co-authors, 2011, Spectroscopic Signatures of Basalts in Mare Tranquillitatis: Observations by the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) onboard Chandrayaan – 1. J. Geophys. Res.
  • Green, R. O., L.A. Taylor, + 15 co-authors, 2011.  The Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) imaging spectrometer for lunar science: Instrument description, calibration, on-orbit measurements, science data calibration and on-orbit validation.  J. Geophys. Res., 116, E00G19, doi:10.1029/2011JE003797
  • Greenwood, J.P., Itoh, S., Sakamoto, N., Warren, P., Taylor, L.A., and Yurimoto, H., 2011.  Hydrogen isotope ratios in lunar rocks indicate delivery of cometary water to the Moon, Nature,  DOI: 10.1038/NGEO1050.
  • Isaacson, P. J., C. M. Pieters, S. Besse, R. N. Clark, J. W. Head, R. L. Klima, J. F. Mustard, N. E. Petro, M. I. Staid, J. M. Sunshine, L. A. Taylor, K. G. Thaisen, and S. Tompkins, 2011, Remote compositional analysis of lunar olivine-rich lithologies with Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) spectra, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2010JE003731.
  • Issacson, P.J., Basu Sarbadhikari, A., Pieters, C.M., Klima, R.L., Hiroi, T., Liu, Y., and Taylor, L.A., 2011.  The lunar rock and mineral characterization consortium: Deconstruction and integrated analyses of mare basalts. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 46, 228-251.
  • Klima, R.L, Pieters, C.M., Boardman, J.W., Green, R.O., Head III, J.W., Isaacson, P.J.,  Mustard, J.F., Nettles J.W., Petro, N.E., Staid, M.I., Sunshine, J.M., Taylor, L.A., and Tompki, S., 2011.  New insights into lunar petrology: Distribution and composition of prominent low‐Ca pyroxene exposures as observed by the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3), Jour. Geophy. Res., 116, E00G06, doi:10.1029/2010JE003719.
  • Kramer, G. Y., S. Besse, D. Dhingra, J. Nettles, R. Klima, I. Garrick- Bethell, R. N. Clark, J.-P. Combe, J. W. Head III, L. A. Taylor, C. M. Pieters, J. Boardman, and T. B. McCord, 2011. M3 spectral analysis of lunar swirls and the link between optical maturation and surface hydroxyl formation at magnetic anomalies.  J. Geophys. Res., 116, E00G18, doi:10.1029/2010JE003729
  • Kramer, G., Taylor, L.A., + 7 co-authors, 2011, The Spectral Peculiarities of Lunar Swirls as Seen by the Moon Mineralogy Mapper,  Jour. Geophys. Res. 116, E00G02, doi:10.1029/ 2010JE003702.
  • Liu, Y and Taylor, L.A., 2011.  Water on the Moon. Acta Petrologica Sinica, , 27, 579-588 (invitied review).
  • Liu, Y. & Taylor, L.A. 2011, “Characterization of lunar dust and a synopsis of available lunar simulants”, Planetary and Space Science, vol. 59, no. 14, pp. 1769-1783.
  • McCord, T.B., Taylor, L.A., Combe, J.P., Kramer, G., Pieters, C.M., Sunshine, J.P., and Clark, R.N., 2011.  Sources and physical processes responsible for OH/H2Oin the lunar soil as revealed by the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3), Jour. Geophy. Res., 116, E0G05, doi:10.1029/2010JE003711
  • Neetles, J.W., M. Staid, S. Besse, J. Boardman, R.N. Clark, D. Dhingra, P.J. Isaacson, R.. Klima, G. Kramer, C.M. Pieters, and L.A. Taylor, 2011, Optical maturity variation in lunar spectra as measured by the Moon Mineralogy Mapper.  J. Geophys. Res. 116, E00G17, doi:10.1029/2010JE003738.
  • Pieters, C. M., S. Besse, J. Boardman, B. Buratti, L. Cheek, R. N. Clark, J. P. Combe, D. Dhingra, J. N. Goswami, R. O. Green, J. W. Head, P. Isaacson, R. Klima, G. Kramer, S. Lundeen, E. Malaret, T. McCord, J. Mustard, J. Nettles, N. Petro, C. Runyon, M. Staid, J. Sunshine, L. A. Taylor, K. Thaisen, S. Tompkins, and J. Whitten, 2011, Mg-Spinel Lithology: A New Rock-type on the Lunar Farside, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2010JE003727.
  • Riches, A.J.V., Liu, Y., Day, J.M.D., Puchtel, I.S., Rumble, D.,III, McSween, H.Y.,Jr, Walker, R.J. & Taylor, L.A. 2011, “Petrology and geochemistry of Yamato 984028; a cumulate lherzolitic shergottite with affinities to Y 00027, Y 00047, and Y 00097”, Polar Science, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 497-514.
  • Staid, M. I., C. M. Pieters, S. Besse, J. Boardman, D. Dhingra, R. O. Green, J. W. Head, P. J. Isaacson, R. L. Klima, G. Kramer, J. F. Mustard, C. J. Runyon, J. M. Sunshine, and L. A. Taylor, 2011, The Mineralogy of Late-Stage Lunar Volcanism as Observed by the Moon Mineralogy Mapper on Chandrayaan-1, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2010JE003735.
  • Thaisen, K.G., Head, J.W., Taylor, L.A., Kramer, G.Y., Isaacson, P.J., Nettles, J., Petro, N.E., and Pieters, C.M., 2011.  Geology of the Moscoviense Basin, Jour. Geophy. Res., 116, E00G07, doi:10.1029/2010JE003732.
  • Van Rythoven, A.D., T.E. McCandless, D.J. Schulze, A. Bellis, Y. Liu, and L.A. Taylor, 2011, Diamond crystals and their mineral inclusions from the Lynx Kimberlite Dyke Complex, Central Ontario.  The Canadian Mineral. 49, 691-706.
  • Whitten, J., J. W. Head, M. Staid, C. M. Pieters, J. F. Mustard, R. N. Clark, J. Nettles, R. L. Klima, and L. A. Taylor, 2011, Lunar Mare Deposits Associated with the Orientale Impact Basin: New Insights into Mineralogy, History, Mode of Emplacement, and Relation to Orientale Basin Evolution from Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) Data from Chandrayaan-1, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2010JE003736.
  • Zhang,  A., Taylor, L.A., Hsu, W., Floss, C., Li, X., Li, Q., and Liu Y., 2011.  Petrogenesis of lunar meteorite Northwest Africa 2977: Constraints from in situ microprobe results. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 45, 1929–1947.
  • Boyce, J.W., Liu, Y., Rossman, G.R., Guan, Y., Eiler, J.M., Stolper, E.M., and Taylor, L.A., 2010.  Lunar apatite with terrestrial volatile abundances. Nature, 466, 466-469.
  • Cole, D.M., Taylor, L.A., Liu, Y., and Hopkins, M.A., 2010, Grain-scale mechanical properties of lunar plagioclase and its simulant:  Initial experimental findings and modeling implications.  Earth & Space Sci. 2010: Engr., Sci., Constr., & Oper., ASCE, 76-83.
  • Cooper, B.L., McKay, D.S., Taylor, L.A., Kawamoto, H., Riofrio, L.M., and Gonzalez, C.P., 2010, Extracting respirable particles from lunar regolith for toxicology studies. Earth & Space Sci. 2010: Engr., Sci., Constr., & Oper., ASCE, 66-73.
  • Gaskin, J., Abbott, T., Medley, S., Patty, K., Gregory, D., Thaisen, K., Ramsey, B., Jerman, G., Sampson, A., Harvey, R., and Taylor, L.A., 2010, Miniturized scanning electron microprobe for in-situ planetary studies. Earth & Space Sci. 2010: Engr., Sci., Constr., & Oper., ASCE, 1246-1257.
  • Liu,Y., Spicuzza, M.J., Craddock, P.R., Day, J.M.D., Valley, J.W., Dauphas, D., and Taylor, L.A., 2010.  Coupled oxygen and iron isotope analyses of lunar mare basalts: Near-surface fractionation and source characteristics. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, (in press).
  • Riches, A.J.V., Liu, Y., Day, J.M.D., Puchtel, I.S., Rumble, D., McSween, H., Walker, R.J.,  and Taylor, L.A., 2010.  Petrology and geochemistry of Yamato 984028: A highly-depleted cumulate lherzolitic shergottite. Polar Science, 4, doi: 10.1016 /j.polar .2010.04.009.
  • Taylor, L. A., C. M. Pieters, A. Patchen, D.-H. S. Taylor, R. V. Morris, L. P. Keller, and D. S. McKay, 2010, Mineralogical and Chemical Characterization of Lunar Highland Soils: Insights into the Space Weathering Of Soils on Airless Bodies. J. Geophys. Res., 115, E02002, 14 PP., doi:10.1029/2009JE003427
  • Taylor, L.A., and Liu, Y., 2010. Important considerations for lunar soil simulants. Earth & Space Sci. 2010: Engr., Sci., Constr., & Oper., ASCE, 106-118.
  • Thaisen, K.G., Gaskin, J.A., Ramsey, B.D., Jerman, G., Sampson, A.R., and Taylor, L.A., 2010, Development of a miniature scanning electron microscope to facilitate in-situ lunar science and engineering. Earth & Space Sci. 2010: Engr., Sci., Constr., & Oper., ASCE, 1046-1053.
  • Wong, N., Santarius, Taylor, L.A., Garrison, D.H., James, J.T., McKay, D.S., and Kuhlman, K.R., 2010, Decay of reactivity in forsterite due to UV radiation.  Earth & Space Sci. 2010: Engr., Sci., Constr., & Oper., ASCE, 29-35.
  •  Zhang, A., Guan, Y., Hsu, W., Liu, Y., and Taylor, L.A., 2010.  Origin of a recrystallized lithic clast in CM chondrite Grove Mountain 021536. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 45, 238-245.
  • Day, J.M.D., Ash, R.D., Liu, Y., Bellucci, J.J., Rumble III, D., McDonough, W.F., Walker, R.J., and Taylor, L.A., 2009. Early formation of evolved asteroidal crust. Nature 457, doi: 10.1038/nature07651
  • Miller, J., Taylor, L.A., Zeitlin, C., Heilbronn, L., Guetersloh, S., DiGiuseppe, M., Iwata, Y., and Murakami, T., 2009, Lunar soil as shielding against space radiation. Radiation Measurement, 1-5.
  • Basu Sarbadhikari, A., Day, J.M.D., Liu, Y., Rumble III, D., and Taylor, L.A., 2009. Petrogenesis of olivine-phyric shergottite Larkman Nunatak 06319: Implications for enriched components in martian basalts, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2009.01.012.
  • Pieters C.M., Taylor, L.A. & 18 other coauthors, 2009. The Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) on Chandrayaan-1, Current Science 96, 500-505.
  • Hill, E., Taylor, L.A., Floss, C., & Liu, Y., 2009. Lunar meteorite LaPaz Icefield 04841: Petrology, texture, and impack-chock effects of a low-Ti mare basalt, Meteoritics & Planetary Science 44, 87-94.
  • Liu , Y., Floss, C., Day, J.M.D., Hill, E., and Taylor, L.A., 2009. Petrogenesis of lunar mare basalt meteorite Miller Range 05035. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 44, 261-284.
  • Liu, Y. Park, J., Schnare, D.W., Hill, E., and Taylor, L.A., 2008. Characterization of lunar dust for toxicological studies. II. Morphology and physical characteristics. Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 21(4), 272-279.
  • Liu, Y., Schnare, D.W., Eimer, B.C., and Taylor, L.A., 2008. Dry separation of respirable lunar dust: Providing samples for the lunar airborne dust toxicity advisory group. Planetary and Space Science, 56, 1517–1523.
  • Logvinova, A.M., Wirth, R., Sobolev, N.V., Seryotkin, Y.V., Yefimova, E.S., Floss, C. & Taylor, L.A., 2008. Eskolaite associated with diamond from the Udachnaya kimberlite pipe, Yakutia, Russia, American Mineralogist 93, 685-690.
  • Park, J., Liu, Y., Kihm, K.D., and Taylor, L.A., 2008. Characterization of lunar dust for toxicological studies. I. Particle size distribution. Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 21(4), 266-271.
  • Schnare, D.W., Day, J.M.D., Norman, M.D., Liu, Y., and Taylor, L.A., 2008. A laser-ablation ICP-MS study of Apollo 15 low-titanium olivine-normative and quartz-normative mare basalts. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 72, 2556-2572
  • Spetsius, Z.V., Taylor, L.A., Valley, J.W., Deangelis, M.T., Spicuzza, M., Ivanov, A., and Banzeruk, V.I., 2008. Diamondiferous xenoliths from crustal subduction: garnet oxygen isotopes from the Nyurbinskaya pipe, Yakutia, Eur. J. Mineralogy. 20, 375-385.
  • Terada, K., Sasaki, Y., Anand, M., Sano, Y., Taylor, L.A. & Horie, K. 2008. Uranium-lead systematics of low-Ti basaltic meteorite Dhofar 287A; affinity to Apollo 15 green glasses, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 270, 119-124.
  • Wegeng, R.S., Mankins, J.C., Taylor, L.A., and Sanders, 2007. G.B., Thermal Energy Reservoirs from Processed Lunar Regolith. Proceedings, 5th International Energy Conversion Engineering Conference and Exhibit (IECEC) , St. Louis, Missouri, June 25-27, 1-7.
  • James, O.B., Cohen, B.A., Taylor, L.A. & Nazarov, M.A. 2007. New” lunar meteorites; impact melt and regolith breccias and large-scale heterogeneities of the upper lunar crust; discussion [modified]”, Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 42, 1029-1032.
  • Liu, Y., Taylor, L.A., Thompson, J., Schnare, D.W., and Park, J., 2007. Unique properties of lunar impact glass: Nanophase metallic Fe synthesis, American Mineralogist 92, 1420-1427.
  • Day, J.M.D., Pearson, D.G., and Taylor, L.A., 2007, Highly siderophile element constraints on accretion and differentiation of the Earth-Moon system, Science, Science 315: 158 [DOI: 10.1126/science.315.5809.158a]
  • Day, J.M.D. and Taylor, L.A., 2007, On the structure of mare basalt lava flows from textural analysis of the LaPaz Icefield and Northwest Africa 032 lunar meteorites, Meteor. Planet. Sci42, 3-17.
  • Spicuzza, M., Day, J., Taylor, L.A., and Vally, J.W., 2007, Oxygen isotope conatraints on the origin and differentiation of the Moon, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 253, 254-265.
  • Hill, E., Mellin, M., Deane, B., Liu, Y., Taylor, L.A., 2007, Apollo sample 70051 and high- and low-Ti lunar soil stimulants MLS-1A abd JSC-1A: Implications for future lunar exploration, J. Geophy. Res. 112, E02006, doi;10.1029/2006JE002767,2007.
  • Taylor, S.R., Taylor, G.J., and Taylor, L.A., 2006, The Moon: A Taylor perspective, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta70, 5904-5918.
  • Anand, M., Taylor, L.A., Floss, C., Neal, C.R., Terada, K. and Tanikawa, S., 2006, Petrology and geochemistry of LaPaz Icefiled 02205: A new unique low-Ti mare-basalt meteorite, Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, 70, 246-264
  • Day J.M.D., Taylor L.A., Floss C., Patchen A.D., Schnare D.W., Pearson D.G., 2006, Comparative petrology, geochemistry and petrogenesis of evolved, low-Ti lunar mare basalt meteorites from the La Paz icefield, Antarctica. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 70, 1581-1600.
  • Day J.M.D., Floss C., Taylor L.A., Anand M., Patchen A.D., 2006, Evolved mare basalt magmatism, high Mg/Fe feldspathic crust, chondritic impactors, and the petrogenesis of lunar breccia meteorites Meteorite Hills 01210 and Pecora Escarpment 02007. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta70, 5957-5989.
  • Day J.M.D., Taylor L.A., Floss C., McSween H.Y. Jr., 2006, Petrology and chemistry of MIL 03346 and its significance in understanding the petrogenesis of nakhlites on Mars. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 41, 581-606.
  • Naumov, V.I., Irick, D.K., Taylor, L.A., and, Parang, M, 2006, Senior Capstone Design Experiences at the University of Tennessee: NASA and DOE Student Programs, ASEE Southeast Section Conference Proceedings
  • Pieters, C., shkuratov, Y., Kaydash, V., Stankevich, D., and Taylor, L.A., 2006, Lunar soil characterization consortium analyses: Pyroxene and maturity estimates derived from Clemintine image data, ICARUS 184, 83-101.
  • Taylor, L.A., Hill, E., Liu, Y., Park, J., and Bruce, R.W., 2006, Microwave Processing Apollo Soil: Products for a Lunar Base, Earth & Space 2006, Amer. Soc. Civil Engr., Proc., CD-Rom
  • Lucey, P., Korotev, R.L., Gillis, J., Taylor, L.A., et al., 2006 Understanding the lunar surface and space-Moon interactions. In New Views of the Moon, Jolliff, B.L. Ed, Reviews in Mineral. & Geochem., vol. 60, Mineral. Soc. Amer., Chpt. 2, 83-219.
  • Hill, E., Patchen, A., Deane, B., Liu. Y., Park, J., and Taylor, L.A., 2006, Lunar simulants as feedstocks for ISRU Processing: Mineralogy and chemistry., Earth & Space 2006, Amer. Soc. Civil Engr., Proc., CD-Rom
  • Liu, Y., Park, J., Hill, E., Kihm, K., and Taylor, L.A., 2006, Morphology and physical characteristics of Apollo 17 dust particles, Earth & Space 2006, Amer. Soc. Civil Engr., Proc., CD-Rom
  • Park, J., Liu, Y., Kihm, K., Hill, E., and Taylor, L.A., 2006, Submicron particle size distribution of Apollo 11 Lunar dust, Earth & Space 2006, Amer. Soc. Civil Engr., Proc., CD-Rom
  • Abbas, M.M., Tankosic, D., Craven, P.D., Hoover, R.B., Taylor, L.A., Spann, J.F., LeClair, A., and West, E.A., 2006, Charging of Lunar dust grains by photoeclectic emissions., Proc. Lunar Dust & ISRU Conf., 58-61.
  • Barlett, P.W., Basso, B., Cole, D., Gorevan, S., Kennedy, T., Baulsen, G., Taylor, L.A., Wilson, J., and Yachbes, I., 2006, Implementation study & technology development for a near earth object deflection mission using mass drivers., Proc. NEO Deflection & Threat Mitigation Working Group, 1-10.
  • Taylor, L.A., Schmitt, H.H., Carrier, W.D., and Nakagawa, M, 2005, The lunar dust problem: From liability to asset, AIAA, 2510-2518.
  • Taylor, L.A. and Meak, T.T., 2005, Microwave sintering of lunar soil: Properties, theory, and practice, J. Aerospace Engr., 18(3), 188-196.
  • Taylor, L.A., Spetsius, Z.V., Wiesli. R., Spicuzza, M. and Valley, J.W., 2005, Diamondiferous peridotites from oceanic protoliths: Crustal signature from Yakutian kimberlites. Russian Geology & Geophysics 46 (12), 1198-1206
  • Anand, M., Taylor, L.A., C. Floss, C.R. Neal, K. Terada, and S. Tanikawa, 2005, Petrology and geochemistry of LaPaz Icefield 02205: A new unique low-Ti mare-basalt meteorite. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 70, 246-264.
  • Floss C., Taylor L. A., Promprated P. and Rumble D., III, 2005, Northwest Africa 011: A eucritic basalt from a non-eucrite parent body. Meteorit. Planet. Sci.40, 343-359.
  • Logvinova, A.M., L.A. Taylor, C. Floss, and N.V. Sobolev, 2005, Geochemistry of multiple diamond inclusions of harzburgitic garnets as examined in situ. Int’l. Geol. Reviews 47, 1223-1233.
  • Parang, M., V.I. Naumov, and L.A. Taylor, 2005, NASA student programs and the senior capstone design experience. Proc. Int’l. Mech. Engr. Congress & Exposition, ASME 2005, IMECE2005-81402.
  • Naumov, V.I., D.K. Irick, L.A. Taylor, and M. Parang, 2005, Senior capstone design experiences at the University of Tennessee: NASA and DOE student programs. Proc. ASEE Southeast Sect. Conf., ASEE2005-13245.
  • Liu, Y., L.A. Taylor, E. Hill, J. Park, and K. Kihm, 2005, Lunar agglutinitic glass simulants with nanophase iron. Proc. Int’l Lunar Conf. 2005, Toronto, CD-ROM, 8 pp.

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