Francis McCubbin
Astromaterials Curator | NASA
Francis McCubbin
Astromaterials Curator
NASA
Phone
281.483.5126
Phone
281.483.5126
Biography
Francis McCubbin is the Astromaterials Curator within the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science (ARES) Division at the Johnson Space Center. As head curator, McCubbin is responsible for protecting the scientific integrity of NASA's priceless astromaterials collections and distributing select samples to the global community for further scientific examination. His research focuses on understanding the abundance, distribution and origin of water in the inner solar system, as well as deciphering the thermal and magmatic evolution of the terrestrial planets, moons and asteroids. Before coming to Johnson, McCubbin spent five years as a research scientist at the Institute of Meteoritics at the University of New Mexico. Prior to that, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Geophysical Laboratory at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C.
Education
Ph.D.
Geosciences
Stony Brook University
2009
B.S.
Geology
Towson University
2004
Education
Ph.D., Geosciences, 2009
Stony Brook University
B.S., Geology, 2004
Towson University
Laboratories
Select Publications
Barnes J.J., Franchi I.A., McCubbin F.M., and Anand M. (in press) Multiple volatile reservoirs on the Moon revealed by the isotopic composition of chlorine in lunar basalts. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, In Press.
Moser D.E., Arcuri G.A., Reinhard D.A., White L.F., Darling J.R,, Barker I.R., Larson D.J., Irving A. J., McCubbin F.M., Tait K.T., Roszjar J., Wittmann A., Davis C. (in press) Decline of giant impacts on Mars by 4.48 billion years ago and an early opportunity for habitability. Nature Geoscience.
Heck, P. R., Herd, C. D. K., Grossman, J. N., Badjukov, D., Bouvier, A., Bullock, E., Chennaoui, H., Debaille, V., Dunn, T. L., Ebel, D., Ferrière, L., Garvie, L., Gattacceca, J., Gounelle, M., Herd, R., Ireland, T., Jacquet, E., Macke, R. J., McCoy, T., McCubbin, F. M., Mikouchi, T., Metzler, K., Roskosz, M., Smith, C., Wadhwa, M., Welzenbach-Fries, L., Yada, T., Yamaguchi, A., Zeigler, R. A., and Zolensky, M. (in press) Best practices for the use of meteorite names in publications. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 54, In Press.
Byrne, P.K., Whitten, J.L., Klimczak, C., McCubbin, F.M., and Ostrach, L.R. (2019) The volcanic character of Mercury. In S.C. Solomon, L.R. Nittler, and B.J. Anderson, Eds. Mercury: The View after MESSENGER, p. 287-323. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
McCoy, T.J., Peplowski, P.N., McCubbin, F.M., and Weider, S.Z. (2019) The geochemical and mineralogical diversity of Mercury. In S.C. Solomon, L.R. Nittler, and B.J. Anderson, Eds. Mercury: The View after MESSENGER, p. 176-190. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Beaty, D.W., M. M. Grady, H. Y. McSween, E. Sefton-Nash, B. L. Carrier, F. Altieri, Y. Amelin, E. Ammannito, M. Anand, L. G. Benning, J. L. Bishop, L. E. Borg, D. Boucher, J. R. Brucato, H. Busemann, K. A. Campbell, A. D. Czaja, V. Debaille, D. J. Des Marais, M. Dixon, B. L. Ehlmann, J. D. Farmer, D. C. Fernandez-Remolar, J. Filiberto, J. Fogarty, D. P. Glavin, Y. S. Goreva, L. J. Hallis, A. D. Harrington, E. M. Hausrath, C. D. K. Herd, B. Horgan, M. Humayun, T. Kleine, J. Kleinhenz, R. Mackelprang, N. Mangold, L. E. Mayhew, J. T. McCoy, F. M. McCubbin, S. M. McLennan, D. E. Moser, F. Moynier, J. F. Mustard, P. B. Niles, and 26 more authors (2019) The Potential Science and Engineering Value of Samples Delivered to Earth by Mars Sample Return. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 54, S1, S3-S152.
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., and Turrin B. D. (2019) Reclassification of four aubrites as enstatite chondrite impact melts: Potential geochemical analogues for Mercury. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 54, 785-810.
Brounce M. J., Boyce J. W., McCubbin F. M., Humphreys J., Reppart J., Stolper E. and Eiler J. (2019) The oxidation state of sulfur in lunar apatite. American Mineralogist, 104, 307-312 10.2138/am-2019-6804
Srinivasan P., Dunlap D., Agee C.B., Wadhwa M., Coleff D., Ziegler K., Zeigler R.A., and McCubbin F. M. (2018) Silica-Rich Volcanism in the Early Solar System Dated at 4.565 Ga. Nature Communications, 9, 3036, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-05501-0.
Steele A., Benning L. G., Wirth R., Siljestrom S., Fries M. D., Hauri E. H., Conrad P. G., Rogers K., Eigenbrode J., Schreiber A., Needham A., Wang J. H., McCubbin F. M., Kilcoyne D., and Rodriguez Blanco J. D. (2018) Organic synthesis on Mars by electrochemical reduction of CO2. Science Advances, 4, eaat5118, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aat5118.
Boyce J. W., Kanee, S. A., McCubbin F. M., Barnes, J. J., Bricker, H., and Treiman, A. H. (2018) Early loss, fractionation, and redistribution of chlorine in the Moon as delineated by the low-Ti lunar mare basalt suite. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 500, 205-214.
Rampe E. B., Cartwright, J. A., McCubbin, F. M., and Osterloo, M. M. (2018) The role of Halogens during fluid and magmatic processes on Mars. In The Role of Halogens in Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Geochemical Processes Edited by D. E. Harlov and L. Aranovich. Springer International Publishing, 959-995.
Filiberto J., McCubbin, F.M., and Taylor G.J. (2018) Volatiles in martian magmas and the interior: Inputs of volatiles into the crust and atmosphere. In Volatiles in the Martian Crust Edited by J. Filiberto and S. P. Schwenzer. Elsevier, 13-33.
Day J. M. D., Maria-Benavides J., McCubbin F. M., Zeigler R. A. (2018) The potential for metal contamination during Apollo lunar sample curation. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 53, 1283-1291.
Shearer C. K., Messenger S., Sharp Z. D., Burger P. V., Nguyen A. N., and McCubbin F. M. (2018) Distinct Chlorine Isotopic Reservoirs on Mars. Implications for character, extent and relative timing of crustal interaction with mantle-derived 4 magmas, evolution of the martian atmosphere, and the building blocks of an early Mars. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 234, 24-36.
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., and Hausrath, E. M. (2018) Discreditation of bobdownsite and the establishment of criteria for the identification of minerals with essential monofluorophosphate (PO3F2-). American Mineralogist, 103, 1319-1328.
McCubbin F. M. and Ustunisik G. (2018) Experimental investigation of F and Cl partitioning between apatite and Fe-rich basaltic melt at 0 GPa and 950–1050 °C: Evidence for steric controls on apatite-melt exchange equilibria in OH-poor apatite. American Mineralogist, 103, 1455-1467.
Sarafian, A.R., Hauri, E.H., McCubbin, F.M., Lapen, T.J., Berger, E., Nielsen, S.G., Marschall, H.R., Gaetani, G.A., Righter, K., and Sarafian, E. (2017) Early accretion of water and volatile elements to the inner solar system: Evidence from angrites. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 375: 20160209. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2016.0209.
Vander Kaaden, K.E., McCubbin, F.M., Nittler, L.R., Peplowski, P.N., Weider, S.Z., Frank, E.A. and McCoy, T.J. (2017) Geochemistry, mineralogy, and petrology of boninitic and komatiitic rocks on the mercurian surface: Insights into the mercurian mantle. Icarus, 285, 155-168.
Baziotis, I., Asimow, P.D., Ntaflos, T., Boyce, J.W., McCubbin, F.M., Koroneos, A., Perugini, D., Flude, S., Storey, M., Liu, Y.S., Klemme, S., and Berndt, J. (2017) Phosphorus zoning as a recorder of crystal growth kinetics: application to second-generation olivine in mantle xenoliths from the Cima Volcanic Field. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 172. DOI: 10.1007/s00410-017-1376-7
Herd C. D. K., Walton E. L., Agee C. B., Muttik N., Ziegler K., Shearer C. K., Bell A. S., Santos A. R., Burger P. V., Simon J. I., Tappa M. J., McCubbin F. M., Gattacceca J., Lagroix F., Sanborn M. E., Yin Q.-Z., Cassata W. S., Borg L. E., Lindvall R. E., Kruijer T. S., Brennecka G. A., Kleine T., Nishiizumi K., and Caffee M. W. (2017) The Northwest Africa 8159 martian meteorite: Expanding the martian sample suite to the early Amazonian. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 218, 1-26.
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., and McCoy T. J. (2017) A Low O/Si Ratio on the Surface of Mercury: Evidence for Silicon Smelting? Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 122, 2053-2076. DOI: 10.1002/2017JE005367
Vander Kaaden, K.E. and McCubbin, F.M. (2016) Origin of boninites on Mercury: An experimental study of the northern volcanic plains lavas, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 173, 246-263.
Barnes, J.J., Tartèse, R., Anand, M., McCubbin, F.M., Neal, C.R., and Franchi, I.A. (2016) Early degassing of lunar urKREEP by crust-breaching impact(s). Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 447, 84-94.
McCubbin, F.M., Boyce, J.W., Novák-Szabó, T., Santos, A.R., Tartèse, R., Muttik, N., Domokos, G., Vazquez, J., Keller, L.P., Moser, D.E., Jerolmack, D.J., Shearer, C.K., Steele, A., Elardo, S.M., Rahman, Z., Anand, M., Delhaye, T., and Agee, C.B. (2016) Geologic history of martian regolith breccia Northwest Africa 7034: Evidence for hydrothermal activity and lithologic diversity in the martian crust. J. Geophys. Res. Planets, 121, 2120-2149 doi:10.1002/2016JE005143.
Filiberto, J., Baratoux, D., Beaty, D., Breuer, D., Farcy, B.J., Grott, M., Jones, J.H., Kiefer, W.S., Mane, P., McCubbin, F.M., and Schwenzer, S.P. (2016) A review of volatiles in the martian interior. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 51, 1935-1958.
Filiberto, J., Gross, J. and McCubbin, F.M. (2016) Constraints on the water, chlorine, and fluorine content of the Martian mantle. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 51, 2023-2035.
Williams, J.T., Shearer, C.K., Sharp, Z.D., Burger, P.V., McCubbin, F.M., Santos, A.R., Agee, C.B., McKeegan, K. D. (2016) The chlorine isotopic composition of martian meteorites Part1. Chlorine isotope composition of martian mantle and crustal reservoirs and their interactions. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 51, 2092-2110.
Blewett, D.T., Stadermann, A.C., Susorney, H.C., Ernst, C.M., Xiao, Z., Chabot, N.L., Denevi, B.W., Munchie, S.L., McCubbin, F.M., Kinczyk, M.J., Gillis-Davis, J.J., and Solomon, S.C. (2016) Analysis of MESSENGER high-resolution images of Mercury's hollows and implications for hollow formation. J. Geophys. Res. Planets, 121 1798-1813, doi:10.1002/ 2016JE005070.
Nyquist, L.E., Shih, C., McCubbin, F.M., Santos, A.R., Shearer Jr, C.K., Peng, Z., Burger, P.V. and Agee, C.B. (2016) Rb-Sr and Sm-Nd isotopic and REE studies of igneous components in the bulk matrix domain of martian breccia Northwest Africa 7034. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 51, 483-498.
Ehlmann, B.L., Anderson, F.S., Andrews-Hanna, J., Carter, J., Catling, D.C., Christensen, P.R., Cohen, B.A., Dressing, C.D., Edwards, C.S., Elkins-Tanton, L.T., Farley, K.A., Fassett, C.I., Fischer, W.W., Fraeman, A.A. Golombek, M.P., Hamilton, V.E., Hayes, A.G., Herd, C.D.K. Horgan, B., Hu, R., Jakosky, B.M., Johnson, J.R., Kasting, J.F., Kerber, L., Kinch, K.M., Kite, E.S. Knutson, H.A., Lunine, J.I., Mahaffy, P.R., Mangold, N., McCubbin, F.M., Mustard, J.F., Niles, P.B., Quantin-Nataf, C.M., Rice, S., Stack, K.M., Stevenson, D.J., Stewart, S.T., Toplis, M.J. Usui, T., Weiss, B.P., Werner, S.C., Wordsworth, R.D., Wray, J.J., Yingst, R.A. Yung, Y.L., and Zahnle, K.J. (2016) The Sustainability of Habitability on Terrestrial Planets: Insights, Questions, and Needed Measurements from Mars for Understanding the Evolution of Earth-like Worlds. J. Geophys. Res. Planets, 121, 1927-1961 doi:10.1002/2016JE005134.
Jones, R.H, McCubbin, F.M., and Guan, Y. (2016) Phosphate minerals in the H group of ordinary chondrites, and fluid activity recorded by apatite heterogeneity in the Zag H3-6 regolith breccia. American Mineralogist, 101, 2452-2467.
McCubbin, F.M., Boyce, J.W., Srinivasan, P., Santos, A.R., Elardo, S.M., Filiberto, J., Steele, A. and Shearer, C.K. (2016) Heterogeneous distribution of H2O in the martian interior: Implications for the abundance of H2O in depleted and enriched mantle sources. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 51, 2036-2060.
Steele, A., McCubbin, F.M., and Fries, M.D.F. (2016) The provenance, formation, and implications of reduced carbon phases in Martian meteorites. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 51, 2203-2225.
Shearer, C.K., Elardo, S.M., Petro, N.E., Borg, L.E., and McCubbin, F.M. (2015) Origin of the lunar highlands Mg-suite: An integrated petrology, geochemistry, chronology, and remote sensing perspective. American Mineralogist, 100, 294-325.
Shearer, C.K., Burger, P.V., Papike, J.J., McCubbin, F.M., and Bell, A.S. (2015) Crystal chemistry of merrillite from martian meteorites. Mineralogical recorders of magmatic processes and planetary differentiation. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 50, 649-673.
Santos, A.R., Agee, C.B., McCubbin, F.M., Shearer, C.K., Burger, P. V., Tartèse, R., Anand, M. (2015) Petrology of igneous clasts in Northwest Africa 7034: Implications for the petrologic diversity of the martian crust. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 157, 56-85
McCubbin, F.M. and Jones, R.H. (2015) Extraterrestrial apatite: Planetary geochemistry to Astrobiology. Elements, 11, 183-188.
Evans, L.G., Peplowski, P.N., McCubbin, F.M., McCoy, T.J., Nittler, L.R., Zolotov, M.Y., Ebel, D.S., Lawrence, D.J., Starr, R.D., Weider, S.Z., and Solomon, S.C. (2015) Chlorine on the surface of Mercury: MESSENGER gamma-ray measurements and implications for the planet's formation and evolution. Icarus, 257, 417-427.
McCubbin, F.M., Vander Kaaden, K.E., Tartèse, 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, 1790-1802.
Vander Kaaden, K.E., Agee, C.B., and 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.
Vander Kaaden, K.E. and McCubbin, F.M. (2015) Exotic crust formation on Mercury: Consequences of a shallow, FeO-poor mantle, J. Geophys. Res. Planets, 120, 195-209, doi:10.1002/2014JE004733.
Elardo, S.M., Shearer, C.K., Vander Kaaden, K.E., McCubbin, F.M., and Bell, A.S. (2015) Petrogenesis of primitive and evolved basalts in a cooling Moon: Experimental constraints from the youngest known lunar magmas. Earth and Planetary science Letters, 422, 126-137.
McCubbin, F.M., Vander Kaaden, K.E., Tartèse, 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, 1668-1707.
Ustunisik, G., Nekvasil, H., Lindsley, D.H., and McCubbin, F.M. (2015) Degassing pathways of Cl-, F-, H-, and S-bearing magmas near the lunar surface: Implications for the composition and Cl isotopic values of lunar apatite. American Mineralogist, 100, 1717-1727.
Hughes, J.M., Nekvasil, H., Ustunisik, G., Lindsley, D.H., Coraor, A.E., Vaughn, J., Phillips, B., McCubbin, F.M., and Woerner, W.R. (2014) Solid solution in the fluorapatite - chlorapatite binary system: High-precision crystal structure refinements of synthetic F-Cl apatite. American Mineralogist, 99, 369-376.
Elardo, S.M., Shearer, C.K., Fagan, A.L., Borg, L.E., Gaffney, A.M., Burger, P.V., Neal, C.R., Fernandes, V.A., and McCubbin, F.M. (2014) The origin of young mare basalts inferred from lunar meteorites Northwest Africa 4734, 032, and LaPaz Icefield 02205. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 49, 261-291.
Jones, R.H, McCubbin, F.M., Dreeland, L., Guan, Y., Burger, P.V., and Shearer C.K. (2014) Phosphate Minerals in LL Chondrites: A Record of the Action of Fluids During Metamorphism on Ordinary Chondrite Parent Bodies. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 132, 120-140.
Tartèse, R., Anand, M., McCubbin, F.M., Elardo, F.M., Shearer, C.K., and Franchi, I.A. (2014) Apatites in lunar KREEP basalts: The missing link to understanding the H isotope systematics of the Moon. Geology, 42, 363-366.
Boyce, J.W., Tomlinson, S.M., McCubbin, F.M., Greenwood, J.P., and Treiman, A.H. (2014) The lunar apatite paradox. Science, 344, 400-402 DOI:10.1126/science.1250398.
Hovis, G.L., McCubbin, F.M., Nekvasil, H., Woerner, W., and Lindsley, D.H. (2014) A novel technique for fluorapatite synthesis and the thermodynamic mixing behavior of F-OH apatite crystalline solutions. American Mineralogist, 99, 890-897.
McCubbin, F.M., Shearer, C.K., Burger, P.V., Hauri E.H., Wang J., Elardo, S.M., and Papike, J.J. (2014) Volatile abundances of coexisting merrillite and apatite in the martian meteorite Shergotty: Implications for merrillite in hydrous magmas. American Mineralogist, 99, 1347-1354.
Shearer, C.K., Sharp, Z.D., Burger, P.V., McCubbin, F.M., Provencio, P.P., Brearley, A.J., and Steele, A. (2014) Chlorine distribution and its isotopic composition in "rusty rock" 66095. Implications for volatile element enrichments of "rusty rock" and lunar soils, origin of "rusty" alteration, and volatile element behavior on the Moon. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 139, 411-433.
Mikhail, S., Howell, D., and McCubbin, F.M. (2014) Evidence for multiple diamondite-forming events in the mantle. American Mineralogist, 99, 1537-1543.
Sarafian, A.R., Nielsen, S.G., Marschall, H.R., McCubbin, F.M., and Monteleone, B.D. (2014) Early accretion of water in the inner solar system from a carbonaceous chondrite-like source. Science, 346, 623-626.
Hovis, G.L., Scott, B.T., Altomare, C.M., Leaman, A.R., Morris, M.D., Tomaino, G.P., and McCubbin, F.M. (2014) Thermal expansion of fluorapatite-hydroxylapatite crystalline solutions. American Mineralogist, 99, 2171-2175.
McCubbin, F.M., Sverjensky, D.A., Steele, A., Mysen, B.O. (2014) In-situ characterization of oxalic acid breakdown at elevated P and T: Implications for organic C-O-H fluid sources in petrologic experiments. American Mineralogist, 99, 2258-2271.
Muttik, N., McCubbin, F.M., Keller, L.P., Santos, A.R., McCutcheon, W.A., Provencio, P.P., Rahman, Z., Shearer, C.K., Boyce, J.W., and Agee, C.B. (2014) Inventory of H2O in the ancient Martian regolith from Northwest Africa 7034: The important role of Fe oxides. Geophysical Research Letters, 41, DOI: 10.1002/2014GL062533.
Barnes, J.J., Tartèse, R., Anand, M., McCubbin, F.M., Franchi, I.A., Starkey, N.A., and Russell, S.S. (2014) The origin of water in the primitive Moon as revealed by the lunar highlands samples. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 390, 244-252.
McCubbin, F.M., Elardo, S.M., Shearer Jr, C.K., Smirnov, A., Hauri, E.H., Draper, D.S. (2013) A petrogenetic model for the co-magmatic origin of chassignites and nakhlites: Inferences from chlorine-rich minerals, petrology, and geochemistry. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 48, 819-853.
Papike, J.J., Burger, P.V., Shearer, C.K., McCubbin, F.M. (2013). Experimental and crystal chemical study of the basalt–eclogite transition in Mars and implications for martian magmatism. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 104, 358-376.
Sharp, Z.D., McCubbin, F.M., and Shearer, C.K. (2013) A hydrogen-based oxidation mechanism relevant to planetary formation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 380, 88-97.
Agee, C.B., Wilson, N.V., McCubbin, F.M., Ziegler, K., Polyak, V.J., Sharp, Z.D., Asmerom, Y., Nun, M.H., Shaheen, R., Thiemens, M.H., Steele, A., Fogel, M.L., Bowden, R., Glamoclija, M., Zhang, Z., Elardo, S.M. (2013) Unique Meteorite from Early Amazonian Mars: Water-Rich Basaltic Breccia Northwest Africa 7034. Science, 339, 780-785. 10.1126/science.1228858.
Dodd J.P., Sharp Z.D., Fawcett P.J., Brearley A.J., McCubbin F.M. (2012) Rapid post-mortem maturation of diatom silica oxygen isotope values. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 13, Q09014, doi:10.1029/2011GC004019.
Elardo, S.M., McCubbin, F.M., and Shearer, C.K. (2012) Chromite symplectites in Mg-suite troctolite 76535 as evidence for infiltration metasomatism of a lunar layered intrusion. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 87, 154-177.
Steele, A., McCubbin, F.M., Fries, M., Kater, L., Boctor, N.Z., Fogel, M.L., Conrad, P.G., Glamoclija, M., Spencer, M., Morrow, A.L., Hammond, M.R., Zare, R.N., Vicenzi, E., Siljestrom, S., Bowden, R., Herd, C.D.K., Mysen, B.O., Shirey, S.B., Amundsen, H.E.F., Treiman, A.H., Bullock, E.S., and Jull, A.J.T., (2012) A reduced organic carbon component in martian basalts. Science, 337, 212-215. 10.1126/science.1220715.
Steele, A., McCubbin, F.M., Fries, M.D.F., Golden, D.C., Ming, D.W. and Benning L.G. (2012) Graphite in the martian meteorite Allan Hills 84001. American Mineralogist, 97, 1256-1259.
McCubbin F.M., Hauri E.H., Elardo, S.M., Vander Kaaden, K.E., Wang J., and Shearer C.K. (2012) Hydrous melting of the martian mantle produced both depleted and enriched shergottites. Geology, 40, 683-686. 10.1130/G33242.1.
McCubbin, F.M., Riner, M.A., Vander Kaaden, K.E., and Burkemper L.K., (2012) Is Mercury a volatile-rich planet? Geophysical Research Letters, 39, L09202, doi:10.1029/2012GL051711.
McCubbin F.M., Jolliff B.L., Nekvasil H., Carpenter P.K., Zeigler R.A., Steele A., Elardo S.M., and Lindsley D.H. (2011) Fluorine and chlorine abundances in lunar apatite: Implications for heterogeneous distributions of magmatic volatiles in the lunar interior. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 75, 5073-5093.
Riner M.A., Lucey P.G., McCubbin F.M., and Taylor G.J. (2011) Constraints on Mercury’s surface composition from MESSENGER neutron spectrometer data. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 308, 107-114.
Shearer C.K., Papike J.J., Burger P.V., Sutton S.R., McCubbin F.M., and Newville M. (2011) Direct determination of europium valence state by XANES in extraterrestrial merrillite: Implications for REE crystal chemistry and martian magmatism. American Mineralogist, 96, 1418-1421.
Steele A., McCubbin F.M., Fries M., Glamoclija M., Kater, L., and Nekvasil H. (2010) Graphite in an Apollo 17 impact melt breccia. Science, 329, 51.
Riner M.A., McCubbin F.M., Lucey P.G., Taylor G.J., and Gillis-Davis J.J. (2010) Mercury surface composition: Integrating petrologic modeling and remote sensing data to place constraints on FeO abundance. Icarus, 209, 301-313.
McCubbin F.M., Steele A., Nekvasil H., Fries M., Schneiders A., Rose T., Carpenter P.K., Jolliff B.L. (2010) Detection of structurally bound hydroxyl in apatite from Apollo Mare basalt 15058,128 using TOF-SIMS. American Mineralogist, 95, 1141-1150.
McCubbin F.M., Steele A., Hauri E.H., Nekvasil H., Yamashita S., and Hemley R.J. (2010) Nominally hydrous magmatism on the Moon. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107, 11223-11228. doi/10.1073/pnas.1006677107.
McCubbin F.M., Smirnov A., Nekvasil H., Lindsley D.H., Wang J., and Hauri E.H. (2010) Hydrous magmatism on Mars: A source of water for the surface and subsurface during the Amazonian. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 292, 132-138. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2010.01.028
Mason H.E., McCubbin F.M., Smirnov A. and Phillips B.L. (2009) Solid-State, NMR spectroscopic investigation of the role of water and F in a natural carbonate-fluorapatite. American Mineralogist, 94, 507-516.
Riner M.A., Lucey P.G., Desch S.J., and McCubbin F.M. (2009) Nature of opaque components on Mercury: Insights into a mercurian magma ocean. Geophysical Research Letters, 36, L02201. doi:10.1029/2008GL036128
McCubbin F.M., Tosca N.J., Smirnov A., Nekvasil H., Lindsley D.H., Fries M., and Steele A. (2009) Hydrothermal jarosite and hematite in a pyroxene-hosted melt inclusion in martian meteorite MIL 03346: Implications for magmatic hydrothermal fluids on Mars. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 73, 4907-4917.
Nekvasil H., McCubbin F.M., Harrington A.D., Elardo S.M., and Lindsley D.H. (2009) Linking the Chassigny meteorite and the Martian surface rock Backstay: Insights into igneous crustal differentiation processes on Mars. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 44, 853-869.
McCubbin F.M., Mason H.E., Park H., Parise J.B., Phillips B.L., Nekvasil H., and Lindsley D.H. (2008) Synthesis and characterization of low-OH- fluor-chlorapatite: A single crystal XRD and NMR spectroscopic study. American Mineralogist, 93, 210-216.
McCubbin F.M. and Nekvasil H. (2008) Maskelynite-hosted apatite in the Chassigny meteorite: Insights into late-stage magmatic volatile evolution in Martian magmas. American Mineralogist, 93, 676-684.
McCubbin F.M., Nekvasil H., Harrington A.D., Elardo S.M., and Lindsley D.H. (2008) Compositional diversity and stratification of the Martian crust: Inferences from crystallization experiments on the picrobasalt Humphrey from Gusev Crater, Mars. Journal of Geophysical research-Planets, 113, E11013. doi:10.1029/2008JE003165
Nekvasil H., Filiberto J., McCubbin, F.M., and Lindsley D.H. (2007) Alkalic parental magmas for the Chassignites? Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 42, 979-992.