Chi Ma
Publications
(Recent papers, conference presentations, new mineral announcements)

  • Ma C, Krot AN, Nagashima K, Dunn T (2024) Louisfuchsite, Ca2(Mg4Ti2)(Al4Si2)O20, a new rhönite-type mineral from the NWA 4964 CK meteorite: A refractory phase from the solar nebula. American Mineralogist, early view. [html]
 
  • Herd C, Ma C, Locock A, Walton E, Saini R (2024) Three new iron-phosphate minerals from the El Ali iron meteorite, Somalia: Elaliite, Fe2+8Fe3+(PO4)O8; elkinstantonite, Fe4(PO4)2O; and olsenite, KFe4(PO4)3. American Mineralogist, early view. [html]
 
  • Kampf AR, Smith JB, Hughes JM, Ma C, Emproto C (2024) New minerals from the Redmond Mine, North Carolina, USA: VI. Boojumite and kennygayite, two new minerals with structures based on chains of oxocentered OPb4 tetrahedra. Canadian Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology, early view. [html]
 
  • Kampf AR, Smith JB, Hughes JM, Ma C, Emproto C (2024) New minerals from the Redmond Mine, North Carolina, USA: V. Finescreekite and hayelasdiite, two new thiosulfate minerals containing cubane-like Pb4O4 structural units. Canadian Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology, early view. [html]
 
  • Kampf AR, Gu X, Yang H, Ma C, Marty J (2024) Ebnerite and epiebnerite: NH4ZnPO4 dimorphs with zeolite-type frameworks from the Rowley mine, Arizona, USA. Mineralogical Magazine, early view. [html]
 
  • Kampf AR, Möhn G, Ma C, Désor J (2024) Naalasite, NaAl(AsO3OH)2·H2O, the Al analogue of nafeasite from the Torrecillas mine, Iquique Province, Chile. Mineralogical Magazine, early view. [html]
 
  • Ma C, Liu Y (2024) Nanomineralogy of lunar beads: Discovery of FeS nanocrystals on yellow beads, condensed from volcanic vapors on the Moon. 55th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract #1347. [PDF]
 
  • Liu Y, Ma C (2024) Discovery of lunar halite nanocrystals on the surface of a black bead from Apollo 73001,226. 55th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract #1057. [PDF]
 
  • Liu Y, Ma C (2024) Fluorapatite needle mats on vesicle walls in Apollo 15556 from final-stage water-rich liquids. 55th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract #1058. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Tschauner O, Beckett JR, Greenberg E, Prakapenka VB (2024) Zagamiite, CaAl2Si3.5O11, the hexagonal high-pressure CAS phase with dominant Si, as a mineral from Mars. Minerals, 14(1), 18. [html]
 
  • Ma C, Cámara F, Bindi L, Griffin WL (2024) Toledoite, TiFeSi, a new mineral from inclusions in corundum xenocrysts from Mount Carmel, Israel. Crystals, 14(1), 96. [html]
 
  • Kampf AR, Möhn G, Ma C (2024) Désorite, Pb2(Fe3+6Zn)O2(PO4)4(OH)8, a new phosphate mineral isotypic with jamesite. Minerals, 14(2), 175. [html]
 
  • Krot AN, Dunn TL, Petaev MI, Ma C, Nagashima K, Zipfel J (2024) Metasomatic alteration of coarse-grained igneous calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions from CK3 carbonaceous chondrites. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 59, 809-835. [html]
 
  • Griffin WL, Bindi L, Cámara F, Ma C, Gain SEM, Saunders M, Alard O. Huang J-X, Shaw J, Meredith C, Toledo V, O'Reilly SY (2024) Interactions of magmas and highly reduced fluids during intraplate volcanism, Mt Carmel, Israel: Implications for mantle redox states and global carbon cycles. Gondwana Research, 124, 14-54. [html]
 
  • Birch WD, Ma C (2023) Complexity in the Au–Ag–Hg system: New information from a PGE (‘osmiridium’) concentrate at Waratah Bay, Victoria, Australia. Mineralogical Magazine, 87, 819-829. [html]
 
  • Ma C, Cámara F, Bindi L, Toledo V, Griffin WL (2023) New minerals from inclusions in corundum xenocrysts from Mt. Carmel, Israel: Magnéliite, ziroite, sassite, mizraite-(Ce) and yeite. Materials, 16(24), 7578. [html]
 
  • Kampf AR, Smith JB, Hughes JM, Ma C, Emproto C (2023) New minerals from the Redmond Mine, North Carolina, USA: IV. Haywoodite and hanahanite, two new minerals containing gordaite-like sheets. Canadian Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology, 61, 1137-1149. [html]
 
  • Ma C, Hu J, Suttle MD, Guan Y, Sharp TG, Asimow PD, Steinhardt PJ, Bindi L (2023) Al-Cu-Fe alloys in the solar system: Going inside a Khatyrka-like micrometeorite (KT01) from the Nubian desert, Sudan. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 58, 1642-1653. [html]
 
  • Ma C, Cámara F, Toledo V, Bindi L (2023) Griffinite, Al2TiO5: a new oxide mineral from inclusions in corundum xenocrysts from the Mount Carmel area, Israel. Crystals, 13(10), 1427. [html]
 
  • Hinz IL, Rossi L, Ma C, Johnson JE (2023) Simulated diagenesis of the iron-silica precipitates in banded iron formations. American Mineralogist, 108, 1732-1753. [pdf]
 
  • Ma C, Carbone C, Belmonte D (2023) Cortesognoite, CaV2Si2O7(OH)2·H2O, a new mineral from the Molinello Manganese Mine, Graveglia Valley, Italy. Crystals, 13(9), 1295. [html]
 
  • Ma C, Cámara F, Bindi L, Toledo V, Griffin WL (2023) First terrestrial occurrence of kaitianite (Ti3+2Ti4+O5) from the upper mantle beneath Mount Carmel, Israel. Minerals, 13(8), 1097. [html]
 
  • Ma C (2023) Discovery of colomeraite, NaTi3+Si2O6, a new jadeite-group mineral in the Colomera iron meteorite. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 58 (S1), Abstract No. 6081. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C (2023) Discovery of a new high-pressure silicate, (Mg,Fe,Ca)4Si3O10 with a spinelloid structure, in a shock melt pocket from the Tissint martian meteorite. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 58 (S1), Abstract No. 6257. [PDF]
 
  • Liu Y, Ma C, Eckley SA (2023) Discovery of copper sulfide in lunar vesicular basalt 15556: Evidence for late-stage magmatic aqueous liquid. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 58 (S1), Abstract No. 6029. [PDF]
 
  • Herd CDK, Locock AJ, Saini R, Ma C (2023) The mineralogy of the El Ali IAB iron: Conditions of formation. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 58 (S1), Abstract No. 6143. [PDF]
 
  • Ryazantsev KP, Krot AN, Ma C, Ivanova MA (2023) Ultrarefractory inclusions and corundum-bearing objects from the Sayh Al Uhaymir 290 CH chondrite. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 58 (S1), Abstract No. 6064. [PDF]
 
  • Krot AN, Nagashima K, Dunn TL, Petaev MI, Ma C (2023) Mineralogy, petrography, oxygen- and aluminum-magnesium isotope systematics of igneous CAIs from CK3 chondrites. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 58 (S1), Abstract No. 6116. [PDF]
 
  • Moggi Cecchi V, Nachit H, Ibhi A, Ma C, Cuppone T, Pratesi G, Senesi GS (2023) First meteoritic occurrence of sidorovite (Fe3Pt) in the Smara 002 carbonaceous chondrite. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 58 (S1), Abstract No. 6279. [PDF]
 
  • Andreosatos GM, Ferrière L, Baziotis I, Ma C, Gamaletsos PN, Asimow PD (2023) Discovery of albitic jadeite in the historical Mocs ordinary chondrite. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 58 (S1), Abstract No. 6192. [PDF]
 
  • Tschauner O, Ma C (2023) Discovering High-Pressure and High-Temperature Minerals. In: Celebrating the International Year of Mineralogy: Progress and Landmark Discoveries of the Last Decades. Springer Mineralogy. pp169-206. [html]
 
  • Hu J, Asimow PD, Liu Y, Ma C (2023) Shock-recovered maskelynite indicates low-pressure ejection of shergottites from Mars. Science Advances, 9, eadf290. [html][News]
 
  • Kampf AR, Smith JB, Hughes JM, Ma C, Emproto C (2023) New minerals from the Redmond Mine, North Carolina, USA: III. Cherokeeite and cuprocherokeeite, two new minerals containing [Pb2(Zn,Cu2+)(OH)4]2+ chains. Canadian Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology, 61, 635-647. [html]
 
  • Kampf AR, Smith JB, Hughes JM, Ma C, Emproto C (2023) New minerals from the Redmond Mine, North Carolina, USA: II. Cubothioplumbite and hexathioplumbite, two new minerals containing the cubane-like [Pb4(OH)4]4+ structural unit. Canadian Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology, 61, 623-633. [html]
 
  • Kampf AR, Ma C, Marty J (2023) Chinleite-(Nd), NaNd(SO4)2(H2O), the Nd analogue of chinleite-(Y) from the Markey Mine, Red Canyon, San Juan County, Utah, USA. Canadian Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology, 61, 411-418. [html]
 
  • Kampf AR, Smith JB, Hughes JM, Ma C, Emproto C (2023) New minerals from the Redmond Mine, North Carolina, USA: I. Redmondite, hydroredmondite, and sulfatoredmondite, three minerals containing the novel [Pb8O2Zn(OH)6]8+ structural unit. Canadian Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology, 61, 189-202. [html]
 
  • Ma C, Liu Y (2023) Nanomineralogy of lunar beads: Discovery of zinc sulfide (ZnS) nanocrystals on a yellow bead fragment, condensed from volcanic vapors on the Moon. 54th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract #1420. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Herd CDK, Locock AJ (2023) Nanomineralogy of the El Ali meteorite: Discovery of olsenite, KFe4(PO4)4, the third new mineral from this IAB iron. 54th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract #1883. [PDF]
 
  • Herd CDK, Locock AJ, Saini R, Ma C (2023) The El Ali (Somalia) IAB iron meteorite: New minerals reflecting unusual conditions of formation. 54th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract #2220. [PDF]
 
  • Krot AN, Nagashima K, Dunn TL, Petaev MI, Ma C (2023) Oxygen isotopic compositions of igneous CAIs from CK3 chondrites. 54th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract #1579. [PDF]
 
  • Warren PH, McKeegan KD, Matsuda N, Ma C (2023) Crystalline, hibonite-bearing HASP clasts in lunar meteorite Northwest Africa 2420. 54th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract #2548. [PDF]
 
  • Spray JG, Tschauner O, Ma C, Thompson LM, Hopkins RH (2023) In situ shock veins on Earth: Donwilhelmsite, maskelynite, stishovite, stöfflerite, tissintite (and more) from the Manicouagan impact structure. 54th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract #1307. [PDF]
 
  • Baziotis I, Ferrière L, Ma C, Hu J, Palles D, Kamitsos E, Asimow PD (2023) Compositional and Raman study of high-pressure minerals in shocked L6 chondrite Northwest Africa 12841. 54th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract #1205. [PDF]
 
  • Cooper MA, Dunning G, Hawthorne FC, Ma C, Kampf AR, Spratt J, Stanley CJ, Christy AG (2023) The first occurrence of the carbide anion, C4-, in an oxide mineral: Mikecoxite, ideally (CHg4)OCl2, from the McDermitt open-pit mine, Humboldt County, Nevada, U.S.A. American Mineralogist, 108, 606-613. [html]
 
  • Bindi L, Pasek MA, Ma C, Hu J, Cheng G, Yao N, Asimow PD, Steinhardt PJ (2023) Electrical discharge triggers quasicrystal formation in an eolian dune. PNAS, 120, e2215484119. [html]
 
  • Kampf AR, Mills SJ, Housley RM, Ma C, Thorne B (2023) Tombstoneite, a new mineral from Tombstone, Arizona, USA, with a pinwheel-like Te6+O3(Te4+O3)3 cluster. Mineralogical Magazine, 87, 10-17. [html]
 
  • Kampf AR, Plášil J, Olds TA, Ma C, Marty J (2023) Shinarumpite, a new cobalt uranyl sulfate mineral from the Scenic mine, San Juan County, Utah, USA, structurally related to leydetite. Mineralogical Magazine, 87, 348-355. [html]
 
  • Plášil J, Kampf AR, Ma C, Desor J (2023) Oldsite, K2Fe2+[(UO2)(SO4)2]2(H2O)8, a new uranyl sulfate mineral from Utah, USA: its description and implications for the formation and occurrences of uranyl sulfate minerals. Mineralogical Magazine, 87, 151-159. [html]
 
  • Kampf AR, Harlow GE Ma C (2023) Pohlite, a new lead iodate hydroxide chloride from Sierra Gorda, Chile. Mineralogical Magazine, early view. [html]
 
  • Baziotis IP, Xydous S, Papoutsa A, Hu J, Ma C, Ferrière L, Klemme S, Berndt J, Asimow PD (2023) Investigation of the shocked Viñales ordinary chondrite (L6) meteorite fall–Implications for shock classification, fragmentation, and collision dynamics. Icarus, 390, 115326. [html]
 
  • Nakamura T, et al. (2022) Formation and evolution of carbonaceous asteroid Ryugu: Direct evidence from returned samples. Science, doi/10.1126/science.abn8671. [html]
 
  • Barkov AY, Tolstykh ND, Martin RF, Tamura N, Ma C, Nikiforov AA (2022) Kuvaevite, Ir5Ni10S16, a new mineral species, its associations and genetic features, from the Sisim River Placer Zone, Eastern Sayans. Russian Geology and Geophysics, 63, 1373-1387. [html]
 
  • Kampf AR, Plášil J, Olds TA, Ma C, Marty J (2022) Chenowethite, Mg(H2O)6[(UO2)2(SO4)2(OH)2]·5H2O, a New Mineral with Uranyl-Sulfate Sheets from Red Canyon, Utah, USA. Minerals, 12, 1594. [html]
 
  • Kampf AR, Hughes JM, Ma C, Marty J (2022) Pseudodickthomssenite, Mg(VO3)2·8H2O, a new mineral from the Pickett Corral Mine, Bull Canyon, Montrose County, Colorado, USA. Canadian Mineralogist, 60, 797-804. [html]
 
  • Kampf AR, Plášil J, Olds TA, Ma C, Marty J (2022) Scenicite, a new uranyl-sulfate mineral from the White Canyon district, San Juan County, Utah, USA. Mineralogical Magazine, 86, 743-748. [html]
 
  • Kampf AR, Schlüter J, Malcherek T, Paulenz B, Poh, D, Ma C, Dini M, Molina Donoso AA (2022) Nafeasite, NaFe3+(AsO3OH)2·H2O, a new framework arsenate from the Torrecillas mine, Iquique Province, Chile. Mineralogical Magazine, 86, 883-890. [html]
 
  • Hawthorne FC, Hughes JM, Ma C (2022) Magnussonite, Mn2+18(As3+O3)6Mn1+x(H2O,Clx,[]): Re-examination of the structure and the [Mn1+(As3+O3)6] cluster. Crystals, 12, 1221. [html]
 
  • Kampf AR, Ma C, Chiappino L (2022) Håleniusite-(Ce), CeOF, the Ce analogue of håleniusite-(La) from the Água de Pau Volcano, Sãn Miguel Island, Azores District, Portugal. Canadian Mineralogist, 60, 713-717. [html]
 
  • Kampf AR, Mills SJ, Celestian AJ, Ma C, Yang H, Thorne B (2022) Flaggite, Pb4Cu2+4Te6+2(SO4)2O11(OH)2(H2O), a new mineral with stair-step-like HCP layers from Tombstone, Arizona, USA. Mineralogical Magazine, 86, 397-404. [html]
 
  • Ma C (2022) Discovery of a new chalcogenide mineral, Ni9Ge2S2, in Allende: An alteration phase from the early solar system. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 57 (S1), Abstract No. 6173. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, et al. (2022) Mg-phosphate from asteroid Ryugu: An original H2O-rich phase. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 57 (S1), Abstract No. 6134. [PDF]
 
  • Nakamura T, et al. (2022) Analysis of “Stone” samples from C-Type asteroid Ryugu. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 57 (S1), Abstract No. 6190. [PDF]
 
  • Baziotis I, Ferrière L, Hu J, Ma C, Topa D, Berndt J, Klemme S, Xydous S, Papoutsa A, Asimow PD (2022) Albitic jadeite in six L6 ordinary chondrites (Kakowa, Chantonnay, Viñales, Ozerki, Northwest Africa 12841, and Chug Chug 011). Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 57 (S1), Abstract No. 6126. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Krot AN (2022) Discovery of Al-rich and Ti-bearing rhönite-type mineral, Ca2(Mg4Ti2)(Al4Si2)O20, in NWA 4964 CK carbonaceous chondrite: A refractory phase from the solar nebula. Goldschmidt 2022 meeting, Abstract No. 13253.
 
  • Ma C, Beckett JR, Tissot FLH, Rossman GR (2022) New minerals in type A inclusions from Allende and clues to processes in the early solar system: Paqueite, Ca3TiSi2(Al,Ti,Si)3O14, and burnettite, CaVAlSiO6. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 57, 1300-1324. [html]
 
  • Ma C, Rubin AE (2022) Zolenskyite, FeCr2S4, a new sulfide mineral from the Indarch meteorite. American Mineralogist, 107, 1030-1033. [html]
 
  • Liu Y, Ma C (2022) Direct evidence of volcanic outgassing of Na and K on the Moon from Apollo orange beads. Icarus, 382, 115044. [open access]
 
  • Baziotis IP, Ma C, Guan Y, Ferrière L, Xydous X, Hu J, Kipp MA, Tissot FLH, Asimow PD (2022) Unique evidence of fluid alteration in the Kakowa (L6) ordinary chondrite. Scientific Reports, 12:5520. [html]
 
  • Ma C, Tschauner O, Kong M, Beckett JR, Greenberg E, Prakapenka VB, Lee Y (2022) A high-pressure, clinopyroxene-structured polymorph of albite in highly shocked terrestrial and meteoritic rocks. American Mineralogist, 107, 625-630. [html]
 
  • Ivanova MA, Lorenz CA, Humayun M, Yang S, Ma C, Teplyakova SN, Franchi IA, Korochantsev AV (2022) Sierra Gorda 013: Unusual CBa-like chondrite. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 57, 657-692. [html]
 
  • Ma C, Tschauner O, Beckett JR, Liu Y (2022) Discovery of stöfflerite, (Ca,Na)(Si,Al)4O8 in hollandite structure, a shock-induced, high-pressure mineral in the Tissint Martian meteorite. 53rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract #2332. [PDF]
 
  • Nakamura T, et al. (2022) Early history of Ryugu’s parent asteroid: Evidence from return sample. 53rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract #1753. [PDF]
 
  • Kampf AR, Cooper MA, Celestian AJ, Ma C, Marty J (2022) Dendoraite-(NH4), a new phosphate-oxalate mineral related to thebaite-(NH4) from the Rowley mine, Arizona, USA. Mineralogical Magazine, 86, 531-538. [html]
 
  • Kampf AR, Cooper MA, Celestian AJ, Ma C, Marty J (2022) Relianceite-(K), a new phosphate-oxalate mineral related to davidbrownite-(NH4) from the Rowley mine, Arizona, USA. Mineralogical Magazine, 86, 539-547. [html]
 
  • Kampf AR, Hughes JM, Ma C, Marty J, Rose TP (2022) Pomite and pseudopomite, two new carbonate-encapsulating mixed-valence polyoxovanadate minerals. American Mineralogist, 107, 2143-2149. [html]
 
  • Kampf AR, Cooper MA, Hughes JM, Ma C, Casey WH, Hawthorne FC, Marty J (2022) Protocaseyite, a new decavanadate mineral containing a [Al4(OH)6(H2O)12]6+ linear tetramer, a novel isopolycation. American Mineralogist, 107, 1181-1189 [html]
 
  • Baziotis I, Xydous S, Papoutsa A, Hu J, Ma C, Klemme S, Berndt J, Ferrière L, Caracas R, Asimow PD (2022) Jadeite and related species in shocked meteorites: Limitations on inference of shock conditions. American Mineralogist, 107, 1868-1877. [html]
 
  • Ma C, Krot AN, Paque JM, Tschauner O, Nagashima K (2021) Beckettite, Ca2V6Al6O20, a new mineral in a Type A refractory inclusion from Allende and clues to processes in the early solar system. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 56, 2265-2272. DOI:10.1111/maps.13771 [html]
 
  • Rubin AE, Ma C (2021) Meteorite Mineralogy. Cambridge Planetary Science. Cambridge University Press. ISBN:9781108613767
 
  • Garvie LAJ, Ma C, Ray S, Domanik K, Wittmann A, Wadhwa M (2021) Carletonmooreite, Ni3Si, a new silicide from the Norton County, aubrite meteorite. American Mineralogist,106, 1828-1834. [html]
 
  • Palke AC, Henling LM, Ma C, Rossman GR, Sun Z, Renfro N, Kampf AR, Thu K, Myo N, Wongrawang P, Weeramonkhonlert V (2021) Johnkoivulaite, Cs(Be2B)Mg2Si6O18, a new mineral of the beryl group from the gem deposits of Mogok, Myanmar. American Mineralogist, 106, 1844-1851. [html]
 
  • Ma C, Rubin AE (2021) Discovery of zolenskyite (FeCr2S4), a new sulfide mineral in the Indarch enstatite chondrite. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 56 (S1), Abstract No. 6047. [PDF]
 
  • Gahlan HA, Asimow PD, Azer MK, Ma C, Al-Kahtany KM, Hakeem AY (2021) Geochemistry and mineralogy of the Jebel Aja Igneous Intrusion and the associated exotic pegmatites, Arabian Shield, Saudi Arabia. Lithos, 400-401, 106395 [html]
 
  • Barkov AY, Bindi L, Juárez-Arellano EA, Tamura N, Shvedov GI, Ma C, Martin RF (2021) Unnamed Pt(Cu0.67Sn0.33) from the Bolshoy Khailyk River, Western Sayans, Russia, and a review of related compounds and solid solutions. Minerals, 11, 1240. [html]
 
  • Barkov AY, Bindi L, Tamura N, Martin RF, Ma C, Winkler B, Shvedov GI, Morgenroth W (2021) Fleetite, Cu2RhIrSb2, a new species of platinum-group mineral from the Miass Placer Zone, Southern Urals, Russia. Canadian Mineralogist, 59, 423-430. [html]
 
  • Ma C, Beckett JR (2021) Kaitianite, Ti3+2Ti4+O5, a new titanium oxide mineral from Allende. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 56, 96-107. DOI:10.1111/maps.13576 [html]
 
  • Liu Y, Fischer WW, Ma C, Beckett JR, Tschauner O, Guan Y, Lingappa UF, Webb SM, Prakapenka VB, Lanza NL, Agee CB (2021) Manganese oxides in Martian meteorites Northwest Africa (NWA) 7034 and 7533. Icarus, 364, 114471. [html]
 
  • Tschauner O, Ma C, Spray JG, Greenberg E, Prakapenka VB (2021) Stöfflerite, (Ca,Na)(Si,Al)4O8 in the hollandite structure: A new high-pressure polymorph of anorthite from martian meteorite NWA 856. American Mineralogist, 106, 650-655. [html]
 
  • Mills SJ, Kartashov PM, Kampf AR, Rumsey MS, Ma C, Stanley CJ, Spratt J, Rossman GR, Novgorodova MI (2021) Native tungsten from the Bol'shaya Pol'ya river valley and Mt Neroyka, Russia. Mineralogical Magazine, 85, 76-81. [html]
 
  • Ma C (2021) Zolenskyite, IMA 2020-070, in: CNMNC Newsletter 59, European Journal of Mineralogy, 33, DOI:10.5194/ejm-33-139-2021 [html]
 
  • Ma C, Tschauner O, Beckett JR, Prakapenka V (2021) Discovery of feiite (Fe2+2(Fe2+Ti4+)O5) and liuite (GdFeO3-Type FeTiO3), two new shock-induced, high-pressure minerals in the Martian meteorite Shergotty. 52nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract #1681. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Beckett JR, Prakapenka V (2021) Discovery of new high-pressure mineral tschaunerite, (Fe2+)(Fe2+Ti4+)O4, a shock-induced, post-spinel phase in the Martian meteorite Shergotty. 52nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract #1720. [PDF]
 
  • Liu Y, Ma C (2021) Discovery of a Na-K-sulfate on Apollo 74220 orange beads: Direct evidence of volcanic outgassing of Na and K on the Moon. 52nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract #2064. [PDF]
 
  • Liu Y, Ma C, Morgan M (2021) Preliminary results of a new lunar impact-melt breccia meteorite Northwestern Africa (NWA) 13638. 52nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract #1501. [PDF]
 
  • Garvie LAJ, Ma C, Wittmann A (2021) Location and speciation of germanium in the Butler and Northwest Africa 859 ungrouped iron meteorites. 52nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract #2398. [PDF]
 
  • Tschauner O, Ma C, Newville MG, Lanzirotti A (2020) Structure analysis of natural wangdaodeite—LiNbO3-type FeTiO3. Minerals, 10, 1072. [html]
 
  • Rubin AE, Ma C (2020) Meteorite Mineralogy. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Planetary Science. Oxford University Press. DOI:10.1093/acrefore/9780190647926.013.205
 
  • Xiong Y, Zhang A-C, Kawasaki N, Ma C, Sakamoto N, Chen J-N, Gu L-X, Yurimoto H (2020) Mineralogical and oxygen isotopic study of a new ultrarefractory inclusion in the Northwest Africa 3118 CV3 chondrite. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 55, 2164-2205. [html]
 
  • Ma C, Förster H-J, Grundmann G (2020) Tilkerodeite, Pd2HgSe3, a new platinum-group mineral from Tilkerode, Harz Mountains, Germany. Crystals, 10, 687. [html]
 
  • Ma C, Krot AN, Beckett JR, Nagashima K, Tschauner O, Rossman GR, Simon SB, Bischoff A (2020) Warkite, Ca2Sc6Al6O20, a new mineral in carbonaceous chondrites and a key-stone phase in ultrarefractory inclusions from the solar nebula. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 277, 52-86. [html]
 
  • Ma C (2020) Discovery of meteoritic calzirtite in Leoville: A new ultrarefractory phase from the solar nebula. Goldschmidt 2020, Abstract No. 1674. DOI:10.46427/gold2020.1674 [html]
 
  • Ma C, Tschauner O, Kong M, Beckett JR, Greenberg E, Prakapenka VB, Lee Y (2020) Discovery of a highly-defective, shock-induced, high-pressure albitic jadeite, (Na,Ca,[]1/4)(Al,Si)Si2O6: Natural occurrence of a clinopyroxene with excess Si. 51st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract #1712. [PDF]
 
  • Liu Y, Ma C, Housley RM (2020) Contrasting volcanic gases between pyroclastic eruptions on the Moon. 51st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract #1166. [PDF]
 
  • Paque JM, Hofmann AE, Burnett DS, Guan Y, Jurewicz AJG, Woolum DS, Ma C, Rossman GR (2020) Electron microprobe/SIMS determinations of Al in olivine: Applications to solar wind, pallasites and trace element measurements. Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research, 44, 473-484. [html]
 
  • White LF, Tait KT, Langelier B, Lymer EA, Cernok A, Kizovski TV, Ma C, Tschauner O, Nicklin RI (2020) Reply to Bada: Acidity and fluid composition on the Tagish Lake parent body. PNAS, 117, 22650-22651. [html]
 
  • White LF, Tait KT, Langelier B, Lymer EA, Cernok A, Kizovski TV, Ma C, Tschauner O, Nicklin RI (2020) Evidence for sodium-rich alkaline water in the Tagish Lake parent body and implications for amino acid synthesis and racemization. PNAS, 117, 11217-11219. [html] [news]
 
  • Hu J, Asimow PD, Ma C (2020) Shock synthesis of Al-Fe-Cr-Cu-Ni icosahedral quasicrystal. AIP Conference Proceedings, 2272, 100013. [html]
 
  • Hu J, Asimow PD, Ma C, Bindi L (2020) First synthesis of a unique icosahedral phase from the Khatyrka meteorite by shock-recovery experiment. IUCrJ, 7, 434-444. [html]
 
  • Tschauner O, Ma C, Lanzirotti A, Newville MG (2020) Riesite, a new high pressure polymorph of TiO2 from the Ries impact structure. Minerals, 10, 78. [html]
 
  • Ma C, Tschauner O, Beckett JR, Liu Y, Greenberg E, Prakapenka VB (2019) Chenmingite, FeCr2O4 in the CaFe2O4-type structure, a shock-induced, high-pressure mineral in the Tissint Martian meteorite. American Mineralogist, 104, 1521-1525. [html]
 
  • Ma C, Tschauner O, Bindi L, Beckett JR, Xie X (2019) A vacancy-rich, partially inverted spinelloid silicate, (Mg,Fe,Si)2(Si,[])O4, as a major matrix phase in shock melt veins of the Tenham and Suizhou L6 chondrites. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 54, 1907-1918. [html]
 
  • Ma C, Rubin AE (2019) Edscottite, Fe5C2, a new iron carbide mineral from the Ni-rich Wedderburn IAB iron meteorite. American Mineralogist, 104, 1351-1355. [html] [news]
 
  • Krot AN, Ma C, Nagashima K, Davis AM, Beckett JR, Simon SB, Komatsu M, Fagan TJ, Brenker F, Ivanova MA, Bischoff A (2019) Mineralogy, Petrography, and Oxygen Isotopic Compositions of Ultrarefractory Inclusions from Carbonaceous Chondrites. Chemie der Erde - Geochemistry, 79, 125519. [html]
 
  • Krot AN, Nagashima K, Simon SB, Ma C, Connolly HC, Huss GR, Davis AM, Bizzarro M (2019) Mineralogy, Petrography, and Oxygen and Aluminum-Magnesium Isotope Systematics of Grossite-Bearing Refractory Inclusions. Chemie der Erde - Geochemistry, 79, 125529. [html]
 
  • Förster H-J, Ma C, Grundmann G, Bindi L, Stanley CJ (2019) Nickeltyrrellite, CuNi2Se4, a new member of the spinel supergroup from El Dragón, Bolivia. Canadian Mineralogist, 57, 637-646. [html]
 
  • Ma C, Tschauner O, Beckett JR (2019) A closer look at Martian meteorites: Discovery of the new mineral zagamiite, CaAl2Si3.5O11, a shock-metamorphic, high-pressure, calcium aluminosilicate. 9th International Conference on Mars, Abstract #6138. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C (2019) Discovery of kaitianite, Ti3+2Ti4+O5, in Allende: A new refractory mineral from the solar nebula. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 54 (S1), Abstract No. 6098. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Rubin AE (2019) Edscottite, Fe5C2, a new iron carbide mineral from the Wedderburn iron meteorite. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 54 (S1), Abstract No. 6395. [PDF]
 
  • Krot AN, Ma C, Nagashima K, Davis AM, Beckett JR, Simon SB, Komatsu M, Fagan TJ, Genzel PT, Brenker F, Ivanova MA, Bischoff A (2019) Mineralogy, petrography, and oxygen isotopic compositions of ultrarefractory inclusions from carbonaceous chondrites. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 54 (S1), Abstract No. 6109. [PDF]
 
  • Ivanova MA, Ma C, Lorenz CA, Franchi IA, Kononkova NN (2019) A new unusual bencubbinite (CBa), Sierra Gorda 013, with unique V-rich sulfides. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 54 (S1), Abstract No. 6149. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Liu Y (2019) Discovery of a zinc-rich mineral on the surface of lunar orange pyroclastic beads. American Mineralogist, 104, 447-452. DOI:10.2138/am-2019-6896 [html]
 
  • Ma C, Tschauner O, Beckett JR (2019) Discovery of a new high-pressure silicate phase, (Fe,Mg,Cr,Ti,Ca,[])2(Si,Al)O4 with a tetragonal spinelloid structure, in a shock melt pocket from the Tissint Martian meteorite. 50th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract #1460. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Liu Y (2019) Nanomineralogy of lunar orange beads: Discovery of a Zinc-rich mineral (probably gordaite), derived from volcanic vapor condensates on the Moon. 50th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract #1463. [PDF]
 
  • Hu J, Asimow PD, Ma C (2019) First shock synthesis of khatyrkite, stolperite, and a newly-found natural quasicrystal: Implications for the impact origin of quasicrystals from the Khatyrka meteorite. 50th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract #3126. [PDF]
 
  • Krot AN, Nagashima K, Simon SB, Ma C (2019) Grossite-rich refractory inclusions in carbonaceous chondrites: Evidence for early generation of different O-isotope reservoirs in the protoplanetary disk and O-isotope exchange during fluid-rock interaction. 50th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract #1230. [PDF]
 
  • Barkov AY, Tamura N, Shvedov GI, Stan CV, Ma C, Winkler B, Martin RF (2019) Platiniferous Tetra-Auricupride: A Case Study from the Bolshoy Khailyk Placer Deposit, Western Sayans, Russia. Minerals, 9(3), Art. No. 160. [PDF]
 
  • Paar WH, Ma C, Topa D, Culetto FJ, Hammer VFM, Guan Y, Braithwaite RSW (2019) Discovery of native aluminium on Variscan metagranitoids in Upper Carinthia, Austria: natural or anthropogenic origin? Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali. DOI:10.1007/s12210-019-00760-5 [epdf]
 
  • Zhang AC, Wang SZ, Tomioka N, Lu XC, Ding ZY, Ma C, Wang P, Chen JN, Xu S, Gu LX, Bai YQ, Li Y, Sakamoto N, Wang RC (2019) Crystallization of spherical (Mg,Fe)-oxides by particle attachment in the shocked Martian meteorite Northwest Africa 7755. American Mineralogist, 104, 150-157. DOI:10.2138/am-2019-6597 [html]
 
  • Ma C, Prakapenka V (2018) Tschaunerite, IMA 2017-032a. CNMNC Newsletter No. 46, December 2018, page 1188; European Journal of Mineralogy, 30, 1181-1189. [html]
 
  • Ma C, Tschauner O (2018) Feiite, IMA 2017-041a. CNMNC Newsletter No. 46, December 2018, page 1188; European Journal of Mineralogy, 30, 1181-1189. [html]
 
  • Ma C, Tschauner O (2018) Liuite, IMA 2017-042a. CNMNC Newsletter No. 46, December 2018, page 1189; European Journal of Mineralogy, 30, 1181-1189. [html]
 
  • Ma C, Beckett JR (2018) Nuwaite (Ni6GeS2) and butianite (Ni6SnS2), two new minerals from the Allende meteorite: Alteration products in the early solar system. American Mineralogist, 103, 1918-1924. DOI:10.2138/am-2018-6599 [html]
 
  • Ma C (2018) A closer look at shocked meteorites: Discovery of new high-pressure minerals. American Mineralogist, 103, 1521-1522. DOI:10.2138/am-2018-6710 [html]
 
  • Ma C, Krot AN (2018) Adrianite, Ca12(Al4Mg3Si7)O32Cl6, a new Cl-rich silicate mineral from the Allende meteorite: An alteration phase in a Ca-Al-rich inclusion. American Mineralogist, 103, 1329-1334. DOI:10.2138/am-2018-6505 [html]
 
  • Baziotis I, Asimow PD, Hu J, Ferrière L, Ma C, Cernok A, Anand M, Topa D (2018) High pressure minerals in the Château-Renard (L6) ordinary chondrite: implications for collisions on its parent body. Scientific Reports, 8, 9851. DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-28191-6 [html] [PDF]
 
  • Ma C (2018) Discovery of meteoritic baghdadite, Ca3(Zr,Ti)Si2O9, in Allende: The first solar silicate with structurally essential zirconium? Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 53 (S1), Abstract No. 6358. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Tschauner O (2018) Advanced in situ chemical and structural analyses of new minerals representing extreme conditions. Goldschmidt Abstracts, 2018. [PDF]
 
  • Kampf AR, Rossman GR, Ma C, Belmonte D, Biagioni C, Castellaro F, Chiappino L (2018) Ramazzoite, [Mg8Cu12(PO4)(CO3)4(OH)24(H2O)20][(H0.33SO4)3(H2O)36], the first mineral with a polyoxometalate cation. European Journal of Mineralogy, 30, 827-834. DOI:10.1127/ejm/2018/0030-2748 [html]
 
  • Liu Y, Chen Y, Guan Y, Ma C, Rossman GR, Eiler JM, Zhang Y (2018) Impact-melt hygrometer for Mars: The case of shergottite Elephant Moraine (EETA) 79001. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 490, 206-215. [html]
 
  • Tschauner O, Huang S, Greenberg E, Prakapenka VB, Ma C, Rossman GR, Shen AH, Zhang D, Newville M, Lanzirotti A, Tait K (2018) Ice-VII inclusions in diamonds: Evidence for aqueous fluid in Earth’s deep mantle. Science, 359, 1136-1139. DOI:10.1126/science.aao3030 [html][news]
 
  • Ma C, Tschauner O, Beckett JR, Liu Y (2018) Discovery of chenmingite, FeCr2O4 with an orthorhombic CaFe2O4-type structure, a shock-induced high-pressure mineral in the Tissint martian meteorite. 49th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract #1564. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Tschauner O, Beckett JR (2018) Discovery of a new high-pressure silicate mineral, (Mg,Fe)3Si2O7 with a tetragonal spinelloid structure, in shock melt veins from the Tenham meteorite. 49th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract #1566. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Tschauner O, Beckett JR, Rossman GR, Prescher C, Prakapenke VB, Bechtel HA, McDowell A (2018) Liebermannite, KAlSi3O8, a new shock-metamorphic, high-pressure mineral from the Zagami Martian meteorite. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 53, 50-61. DOI:10.1111/maps.13000 [html]
 
  • Tschauner O, Ma C, Prescher C, Prakapenke V (2018) Structure analysis and conditions of formation of akimotoite in the Tenham chondrite. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 53, 62-74. DOI:10.1111/maps.13009 [html][PDF]
 
  • Wang Y, Zeng L, Asimow PD, Gao LE, Ma C, Antoshechkina PM, Guo C, Hou K, Tang S (2018) Early Cretaceous high-Ti and low-Ti mafic magmatism in Southeastern Tibet: Insights into magmatic evolution of the Comei Large. Lithos, 296-299, 396-411. [html]
 
  • Oppenheim J, Ma C, Hu J, Bindi L, Steinhardt PJ, Asimow PD (2017) Shock synthesis of five-component icosahedral quasicrystals. Scientific Reports, 7, 15629. DOI:10.1038/s41598-017-15771-1 [html] [PDF]
 
  • Oppenheim J, Ma C, Hu J, Bindi L, Steinhardt PJ, Asimow PD (2017) Shock synthesis of decagonal quasicrystals. Scientific Reports, 7, 15628. DOI:10.1038/s41598-017-15229-4 [html] [PDF]
 
  • Rubin AE, Ma C (2017) Meteoritic minerals and their origins. Chemie der Erde - Geochemistry, 77, 325-385. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemer.2017.01.005 [Invited Review]
 
  • Ma C, Krot AN, Nagashima K (2017) Addibischoffite, Ca2Al6Al6O20, a new calcium aluminate mineral from the Acfer 214 CH carbonaceous chondrite: A new refractory phase from the solar nebula. American Mineralogist, 102, 1556-1560. [html]
 
  • Ma C, Yoshizaki T, Krot AN, Beckett JR, Nakamura T, Nagashima K, Muto J, Ivanova MA (2017) Discovery of rubinite, Ca3Ti3+2Si3O12, a new garnet mineral in refractory inclusions from carbonaceous chondrites. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 52 (S1), Abstract No. 6023. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C (2017) Discovery of new mineral butianite, Ni6SnS2, an alteration phase from Allende. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 52 (S1), Abstract No. 6032. [PDF]
 
  • Fudge C, Sharp TG, Ma C, Hu J, Wittmann A, Tschauner O (2017) Northwest Africa 10658, a uniquely shocked eucrite with a range of deformation, transformation and recrystallization effects. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 52 (S1), Abstract No. 6297. [PDF]
 
  • Ivanova MA, Krot AN, Nagashima K, Ma C, MacPherson GJ (2017) Oxygen-isotope composition of ultrarefractory CAI from CV3 chondrite Efremovka. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 52 (S1), Abstract No. 6037. [PDF]
 
  • Pieczka A, Hawthorne FC, Ma C, Rossman GR, Szeleg E, Szuszkiewicz A, Turniak K, Nejbert K, Ilnicki SS, Buffat P, Rutkowski B (2017) Zabinskiite, ideally Ca(Al0.5Ta0.5)(SiO4)O, a new mineral of the titanite group from the Pilawa Górna pegmatite, the Góry Sowie Block, southwestern Poland. Mineralogical Magazine, 81, 591-610. [html]
 
  • Lin C, Hollister LS, MacPherson GJ, Bindi L, Ma C, Andronicos CL, Steinhardt PJ (2017) Evidence of cross-cutting and redox reaction in Khatyrka meteorite reveals metallic-Al minerals formed in outer space. Scientific Reports, 7, 1637. DOI:10.1038/s41598-017-01445-5 [html]
 
  • Ma C, Yoshizaki T, Nakamura T, Muto J (2017) Rubinite, IMA 2016-110. CNMNC Newsletter No. 36, April 2017, page 408. Mineralogical Magazine, 81, 403–409. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Tschauner O (2017) Zagamiite, IMA 2015-022a. CNMNC Newsletter No. 36, April 2017, page 409. Mineralogical Magazine, 81, 403–409. [PDF]
 
  • Kampf AR, Rossman GR, Ma C, Williams PA (2017) Kyawthuite, Bi3+Sb5+O4, a new gem mineral from Mogok, Burma (Myanmar). Mineralogical Magazine, 81, 477-484.
 
  • Ma C, Lin C, Bindi L, Steinhardt PJ (2017) Hollisterite (Al3Fe), kryachkoite (Al,Cu)6(Fe,Cu), and stolperite (AlCu): Three new minerals from the Khatyrka CV3 carbonaceous chondrite. American Mineralogist, 102, 690-693. [html] [Caltech News][PHYS]
 
  • Ma C, Tschauner O, Beckett JR (2017) A new high-pressure calcium aluminosilicate (CaAl2Si3.5O11) in martian meteorites: Another after-life for plagioclase and connections to the CAS phase. 48th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract #1128. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Beckett JR (2017) A new type of tissintite, (Ca,Mg,Na,[]0.14)(Al,Fe,Mg)Si2O6, in the Zagami martian meteorite: A high-pressure clinopyroxene formed in shock. 48th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract #1639. [PDF]
 
  • Liu Y, Ma C, Fisher WW, Guan Y, Webb SM, Beckett JR, Hu J, Agee CB (2017) Evidence for O2-rich environments on Mars from hydrous Mn(IV)-oxides in Northwest Africa (NWA) 7034 and 7533 meteorites. 48th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract #1345. [PDF]
 
  • Fudge C, Hu J, Ma C, Wittmann A, Sharp TG (2017) Shock induced feldspar and silica transformation in polymict eucrite Northwest Africa 10658. 48th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract #2525. [PDF]
 
  • Tschauner O, Ma C (2017) Riesite, IMA 2015-110a. CNMNC Newsletter No. 35, February 2017, page 213. Mineralogical Magazine, 81, 209–213. [PDF]
 
  • Bindi L, Lin C, Ma C, Steinhardt PJ (2016) Collisions in outer space produced an icosahedral phase in the Khatyrka meteorite never observed previously in the laboratory. Scientific Reports, 6, 38117. DOI:10.1038/srep38117 [html] [News] [News2]
 
  • Rossman GR, Ma C, Laurs BM (2016) Yellow dravite from Tanzania. Journal of Gemmology, 35, 190-192.
 
  • Ma C, Lin C, Bindi L, Steinhardt PJ (2016) Kryachkoite, IMA 2016-062. CNMNC Newsletter No. 33, October 2016, page 1142. Mineralogical Magazine, 80, 1135–1144.
 
  • Ma C (2016) Butianite, IMA 2016-028. CNMNC Newsletter No. 32, August 2016, page 920, Mineralogical Magazine, 80, 915–922. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Lin C, Bindi L, Steinhardt PJ (2016) Stolperite, IMA 2016-033. CNMNC Newsletter No. 32, August 2016, page 921, Mineralogical Magazine, 80, 915–922. [PDF]
 
  • Lin C, Ma C, Bindi L, Steinhardt PJ (2016) Hollisterite, IMA 2016-034. CNMNC Newsletter No. 32, August 2016, page 921, Mineralogical Magazine, 80, 915–922. [PDF]
 
  • Liu Y, Ma C, Beckett JR, Chen Y, Guan Y (2016) Rare-earth-element minerals in martian breccia meteorites NWA 7034 and 7533: Implications for fluid-rock interaction in the martian crust. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 451, 251-262. [html]
 
  • Cempírek J, Grew ES, Kampf AR, Ma C, Novák1 M, Gadas P, Škoda R, Vašinová-Galiová M, Pezzotta F, Groat LA, Krivovichev SV (2016) Vránaite, ideally Al16B4Si4O38, a new mineral related to boralsilite, Al16B6Si2O37, from the Manjaka pegmatite, Sahatany Valley, Madagascar. American Mineralogist, 101, 2108-2117. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Krot AN, Nagashima K (2016) Discovery of new mineral addibischoffite, Ca2Al6Al6O20, in a Ca-Al-rich refractory inclusion from the Acfer 214 CH3 meteorite. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 51 (S1), Abstract No. 6016. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Lin C, Bindi L, Steinhardt PJ (2016) Discovery of new Al-Cu-Fe minerals in the Khatyrka CV3 meteorite. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 51 (S1), Abstract No. 6017. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Tschauner O (2016) Discovery of tetragonal almandine, (Fe,Mg,Ca,Na)3(Al,Si,Mg)2Si3O12, a new high-pressure mineral in Shergotty. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 51 (S1), Abstract No. 6124. [PDF]
 
  • Ivanova MA, Lorenz CA, Ma C, Ivanov AV (2016) The Kaidun breccia material variety: New clasts and updated hypothesis on a space trawl origin. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 51 (S1), Abstract No. 6100. [PDF]
 
  • Asimow PD, Lin C, Bindi L, Ma C, Tschauner O, Hollister LS, Steinhardt PJ (2016) Shock synthesis of quasicrystals with implications for their origin in asteroid collisions. PNAS, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1600321113. [html] [news]
 
  • Treiman AH, Boyce JW, Greenwood JP, Eiler JM, Gross J, Guan Y, Ma C, Stolper EM (2016) D-poor hydrogen in lunar mare basalts assimilated from lunar regolith. American Mineralogist, 101, 1596-1603. [html]
 
  • Ma C, Tschauner O, Beckett JR, Liu Y, Rossman GR, Sinogeikin SV, Smith JS, Taylor LA (2016) Ahrensite, r-Fe2SiO4, a new shock-metamorphic mineral from the Tissint meteorite: implications for the Tissint shock event on Mars. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 184, 240-256. [html]
 
  • Ma C, Beckett JR (2016) Majindeite, Mg2Mo3O8, a new mineral from the Allende meteorite and a witness to post-crystallization oxidation of a Ca-Al-rich refractory inclusion. American Mineralogist, 101, 1161-1170. [html]
 
  • Isa J, Ma C, Rubin A (2016) Joegoldsteinite: A new sulfide mineral (MnCr2S4) from the Social Circle IVA iron meteorite. American Mineralogist, 101, 1217-1221. [html]
 
  • Ma C, Beckett JR (2016) Burnettite, CaVAlSiO6, and paqueite, Ca3TiSi2(Al2Ti)O14, two new minerals from Allende: Clues to the evolution of a V-rich Ca-Al-rich inclusion. 47th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract #1595. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Paque J, Tschauner O (2016) Discovery of beckettite, Ca2V6Al6O20, a new alteration mineral in a V-rich Ca-Al-rich inclusion from Allende. 47th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract #1704. [PDF]
 
  • Liu Y, Ma C, Beckett JR, Flannery D, Allwood A (2016) Metamorphism on Mars: A view from eskolaite-bearing chromite-magnetites in NWA 7533. 47th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract #1127. [PDF]
 
  • Johnson JE, Webb SM, Ma C, Fischer WW (2016) Manganese mineralogy and diagenesis in the sedimentary rock record. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 173, 210-231. [html]
 
  • Ma C, Tschauner O (2015) Combined micro-chemical and micro-structural analysis of new minerals representing extreme conditions. AGU Fall Meeting, abstract MR13A-2684. [html]
 
  • Tschauner O, Ma C (2015) Volatile-refractory element reactions and breakdown of refractory oxides under conditions of a giant impact. AGU Fall Meeting, abstract MR13A-2683. [html]
 
  • Cempírek J, Grew ES, Kampf AR, Ma C, Novák M, Gadas P, Škoda R, Vašinová-Galiová M, Pezzotta F, Groat LA (2015) A potentially new borosilicate mineral, ca. Al16B4Si4O38, related to boralsilite from the Manjaka pegmatite, Sahatany Valley, Madagascar. 2015 GSA Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, abstract No. 196-6. [html]
 
  • Boyce JW, Treiman AH, Guan Y, Ma C, Eiler JM, Gross J, Greenwood JP, Stolper EM (2015) The chlorine isotope fingerprint of the lunar magma ocean. Science Advances, 1(8), e1500380. DOI:10.1126/sciadv.1500380 [html]
 
  • Ma C (2015) Nanomineralogy of meteorites by advanced electron microscopy: Discovering new minerals and new materials from the early solar system. Microscopy and Microanalysis, 21 (Suppl 3), paper No. 1175 (Invited), 2353-2354. DOI:10.1017/S1431927615012544 [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Paque J, Tschauner O (2015) Beckettite, IMA 2015-001. CNMNC Newsletter No. 25, June 2015, page 531, Mineralogical Magazine, 79, 529-535. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Krot AN (2015) Addibischoffite, IMA 2015-006. CNMNC Newsletter No. 25, June 2015, page 532, Mineralogical Magazine, 79, 529-535. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C (2015) Discovery of nuwaite, Ni6GeS2, a new alteration mineral in Allende. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 50 (S1), Abstract No. 5151. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Krot AN, Beckett JR, Nagashima K, Tschauner O (2015) Discovery of warkite, Ca2Sc6Al6O20, a new Sc-rich ultra-refractory mineral in Murchison and Vigarano. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 50 (S1), Abstract No. 5025. [PDF]
 
  • Beckett JR, Harvey JP, Ma C, Stolper EM (2015) The stability of zirconia-saturated perovskite and conditions in the early solar system. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 50 (S1), Abstract No. 5245. [PDF]
 
  • Krot AN, Nagashima K, Ma C, Wasserburg GJ (2015) Forsterite-bearing Type B CAI with a relict eringaite-bearing ultra-refractory CAI. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 50 (S1), Abstract No. 5308. [PDF]
 
  • Liu Y, Ma C, Chen Y, Beckett JB, Guan Y (2015) Rare-earth minerals in Martian Meteorite NWA 7034/7533: Evidence for fluid-rock interaction in Martian crust. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 50 (S1), Abstract No. 5051. [PDF]
 
  • Liu Y, Ma C, Beckett JR (2015) Hydrothermal alteration of Martian zircons in NWA 7034/7533. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 50 (S1), Abstract No. 5080. [PDF]
 
  • Chen Y, Liu Y, Guan Y, Ma C (2015) New rock types from Mars: trace element signatures in NWA 7034 clasts. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 50 (S1), Abstract No. 5239. [PDF]
 
  • Caseres JR, Liu Y, Guan Y, Chen Y, Ma C, Howarth G, Taylor LA (2015) Trace element chemistry of Larkman Nunatuk (LAR) 12011, a new olivine-phyric shergottite. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 50 (S1), Abstract No. 5357. [PDF]
 
  • Zhang AC, Ma C, Sakamoto N, Wang RC, Hsu WB, Yurimoto H (2015) Mineralogical anatomy and implications of a Ti–Sc-rich ultrarefractory inclusion from Sayh al Uhaymir 290 CH3 chondrite. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 163, 27-29. DOI:10.1016/j.gca.2015.04.052 [HTML reprint]
 
  • 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 [HTML reprint]
 
  • Ma C, Tschauner O, Beckett JR, Liu Y, Rossman GR, Zhuravlev K, Prakapenka V, Dera P, Taylor LA (2015) Tissintite, (Ca,Na,[])AlSi2O6, a highly-defective, shock-induced, high-pressure clinopyroxene in the Tissint martian meteorite. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 422, 194-205. DOI:10.1016/j.epsl.2015.03.057 [HTML reprint]
 
  • Berekian BJ, Clemens-Knott D, Ma C (2015) Possible new Ca-REE-Bi phosphate minerals from a tungsten-rich calcsilicate skarn, Sierra Nevada Mountains, California. American Mineralogist, 100, 598-601. [HTML reprint]
 
  • Ma C, Tschauner O, Beckett JR, Rossman GR (2015) Liebermannite: A new potassic hollandite (KAlSi3O8) from the Zagami basaltic shergottite. 46th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract #1401. [PDF]
 
  • Liu Y, Ma C (2015) Monazite, chevkinite-perrierite and xenotime in Martian breccia meteorite NWA 7034. 46th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract #1287. [PDF]
 
  • Chen Y, Liu Y, Guan Y, Eiler JM, Ma C, Rossman GR (2015) Surface and magmatic water signatures in EETA 79001 impact melts. 46th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract #2291. [PDF]
 
  • Tschauner O, Ma C, Beckett JR, Prescher C, Prakapenka VB, Rossman GR (2014) Discovery of bridgmanite, the most abundant mineral in Earth, in a shocked meteorite. Science, 346, 1100-1102. DOI: 10.1126/science.1259369 [html] [SEM image] [news1][news2]
 
  • Ma C (2014) Discovering new minerals at micron to nanoscales: A SEM-EBSD-EPMA approach. AGU Fall Meeting, abstract V33D-08. (Invited) [html]
 
  • Ma C, Tschauner O, Beckett JR (2014) Liebermannite, KAlSi3O8-hollandite, a new high-pressure mineral formed by impact on Mars: An integrated SEM-EPMA-synchrotron diffraction investigation. AGU Fall Meeting, abstract MR11A-4307. [html]
 
  • Tschauner O, Ma C, Prescher C, Prakapenka V (2014) Natural bridgmanite-periclase aggregates in Martian meteorites. AGU Fall Meeting, abstract MR11A-4308. [html]
 
  • Ma C (2014) Discovering new minerals: from Earth to Mars and the solar nebula. Invited Seminar at the Department of Geosciences of Stony Brook University on October 16, 2014.
 
  • Ma C (2014) Nanomineralogy of meteorites: from genesis to discovery. Invited Seminar at the Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington on October 14, 2014.
 
  • Tschauner O, Ma C (2014) Bridgmanite, IMA 2014-017. CNMNC Newsletter No. 21, August 2014, page 798. Mineralogical Magazine, 78, 797-804. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Krot AN (2014) Adrianite, IMA 2014-028. CNMNC Newsletter No. 21, August 2014, page 801. Mineralogical Magazine, 78, 797-804. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Carbone C, Belmonte D (2014) Cortesognoite, IMA 2014-029. CNMNC Newsletter No. 21, August 2014, page 801. Mineralogical Magazine, 78, 797-804. [PDF]
 
  • Newcombe ME, Fabbrizio A, Zhang Y, Ma C, Le Voyer M, Guan Y, Eiler JM, Saal AE, Stolper EM (2014) Chemical zonation in olivine-hosted melt inclusions. Contribution to Mineralogy and Petrology, 168:1030. DOI 10.1007/s00410-014-1030-6 [html]
 
  • Ma C, Tschauner O, Beckett JR (2014) Liebermannite, IMA 2013-128. CNMNC Newsletter No. 20, June 2014, page 551. Mineralogical Magazine, 78, 549-558. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Krot AN, Nagashima K, Tschauner O (2014) Warkite, IMA 2013-129. CNMNC Newsletter No. 20, June 2014, page 552. Mineralogical Magazine, 78, 549-558. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C (2014) Nanomineralogy of the first solids in the solar system: Discovering new minerals and new materials. Microscopy and Microanalysis, 20 (Suppl 3), 1704-1705. DOI:10.1017/S1431927614010253 [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Tschauner O, Beckett JR, Liu Y, Rossman GR, Zhuravlev K, Prakapenka V, Dera P, Taylor LA (2014) Tissintite (Ca,Na,[])AlSi2O6: a shock-induced clinopyroxene in the Tissint meteorite. 77th Annual Meteoritical Society Meeting, Abstract #5166. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Krot AN (2014) Discovery of a new Cl-rich silicate mineral, Ca12(Al4Mg3Si7)O32Cl6: an alteration phase in Allende. 77th Annual Meteoritical Society Meeting, Abstract #5432. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Tschauner O, Beckett JR, Liu Y, Rossman GR, Zhuravlev K, Prakapenka V, Dera P, Sinogeikin S, Smith J, Taylor LA (2014) First new minerals from Mars: Discovery of ahrensite r-Fe2SiO4 and tissintite (Ca,Na,[])AlSi2O6, two new high pressure phases from the Tissint martian meteorite. 8th International Conference on Mars, Abstract #1317. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Beckett JR, Rossman GR (2014) Allendeite (Sc4Zr3O12) and hexamolybdenum (Mo,Ru,Fe), two new minerals from an ultrarefractory inclusion from the Allende meteorite. American Mineralogist, 99, 654-666. [HTML reprint]
 
  • Ma C, Krot AN (2014) Hutcheonite, Ca3Ti2(SiAl2)O12, a new garnet mineral from the Allende meteorite: An alteration phase in a Ca-Al-rich inclusion. American Mineralogist, 99, 667-670. [News] [HTML reprint]
 
  • Ma C (2014) Nanomineralogy of meteorites. Invited Nanoscience Seminar at Arizona State University on April 20, 2014. [html]
 
  • Ma C, Tschauner O, Liu Y, Beckett JR, Rossman GR, Zhuravlev K, Prakapenka V, Dera P, Sinogeikin S, Smith J, Taylor LA (2014) Discovery of ahrensite r-Fe2SiO4 and tissintite (Ca,Na,[])AlSi2O6: two new high pressure minerals from the Tissint Martian meteorite. 45th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract #1222. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Krot AN, Nagashima K, Tschauner O (2014) Discovery of a new scandium aluminate mineral, Ca2Sc6Al6O20: an ultra-refractory phase in refractory inclusions from Murchison and Vigarano. 45th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract #1196. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Beckett JR, Rossman GR (2014) Monipite, MoNiP, a new phosphide mineral in a Ca-Al-rich inclusion from the Allende meteorite. American Mineralogist, 99, 198-205. [HTML reprint]
 
  • Ma C, Tschauner O, Liu Y, Sinogeikin SV, Zhuravlev KK, Prakapenka V, Dera PK, Taylor LA (2013) Discovery of ahrensite r-Fe2SiO4 and tissintite (Ca,Na,[])AlSi2O6, two new shock-induced minerals from the Tissint Martian meteorite: a nanomineralogy investigation. AGU Fall Meeting, abstract MR31A-2280.
 
  • Ma C (2013) Paqueite, IMA 2013-053. CNMNC Newsletter No. 17, October 2013, page 3002. Mineralogical Magazine, 77, 2997-3005. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C (2013) Burnettite, IMA 2013-054. CNMNC Newsletter No. 17, October 2013, page 3002. Mineralogical Magazine, 77, 2997-3005. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Rossman GR (2013) Nanomineralogy of gemstones: from genesis to discovery. Mineralogical Magazine, 77(5), 1661. [PDF]
 
  • Boyce J, Treiman A, Eiler J, Ma C, Guan Y, Greenwood J, Gross J, Stolper E (2013) Petrologic and metasomatic controls on H and Cl abundances and isotopes in lunar rocks. Mineralogical Magazine, 77(5), 757. [PDF]
 
  • Pieczka A, Evans RJ, Grew ES, Groat LA, Ma C, Rossman GR (2013) The dumortierite supergroup. I. A new nomenclature for the dumortierite and holtite groups. Mineralogical Magazine, 77, 2825-2839. [PDF reprint]
 
  • Pieczka A, Evans RJ, Grew ES, Groat LA, Ma C, Rossman GR (2013) The dumortierite supergroup. II. Three new minerals from the Szklary pegmatite, SW Poland: Nioboholtite, (Nb0.6[]0.4)Al6BSi3O18, titanoholtite, (Ti0.75[]0.25)Al6BSi3O18, and szklaryite, []Al6BAs3+3O15. Mineralogical Magazine, 77, 2841-2856. [PDF reprint]
 
  • Ma C, Krot AN (2013) Hutcheonite, IMA 2013-029. CNMNC Newsletter No. 16, August 2013, page 2707. Mineralogical Magazine, 77, 2695-2709. [PDF][News]
 
  • Ma C, Tschauner O, Liu Y, Sinogeikin S (2013) Ahrensite, IMA 2013-028. CNMNC Newsletter No. 16, August 2013, page 2707. Mineralogical Magazine, 77, 2695-2709. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Liu Y, Tschauner O (2013) Tissintite, IMA 2013-027. CNMNC Newsletter No. 16, August 2013, page 2707. Mineralogical Magazine, 77, 2695-2709. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C (2013) Nuwaite, IMA 2013-018. CNMNC Newsletter No. 16, August 2013, page 2704. Mineralogical Magazine, 77, 2695-2709. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Krot AN (2013) Discovery of a new garnet mineral, Ca3Ti2(SiAl2)O12: an alteration phase in Allende. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 48 (S1), Abstract 5049. [PDF] [News]
 
  • Park C, Nagashima K, Ma C, Krot AN, Bizzarro M (2013) Two generations of hexagonal CaAl2Si2O8 (dmisteinbergite) in the Type B2 FUN CAI STP-1. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 48 (S1), Abstract 5048. [PDF]
 
  • Liu Y, Day JMD, Ma C, Hand KP, Pokhilenko NP, Taylor LA (2013) Chelyabinsk: an ordinary chondrite from a spectacular fall in Russia. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 48 (S1), Abstract 5103. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Krot AN, Bizzarro M (2013) Discovery of dmisteinbergite (hexagonal CaAl2Si2O8) in the Allende meteorite: A new member of refractory silicates formed in the solar nebula. American Mineralogist, 98, 1368-1371. [HTML reprint] [News]
 
  • Ma C, Tschauner O, Beckett JR, Rossman GR, Liu W (2013) Kangite, (Sc,Ti,Al,Zr,Mg,Ca,[])2O3, a new ultrarefractory scandia mineral from the Allende meteorite: Synchrotron micro-Laue diffraction and electron backscatter diffraction. American Mineralogist, 98, 870-878. [PDF]
 
  • Tschauner O, Ma C, Grubor-Urosevic O, Chen YJ (2013) Anomalous bulk compression behaviour in a hyperstoichiometric uranium-dioxide-thorium-dioxide solid solution. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 25, doi:10.1088/0953-8984/25/16/162201.
 
  • Ma C (2013) Majindeite, IMA 2012-079. CNMNC Newsletter No. 15, February 2013, page 10. Mineralogical Magazine, 77, 1-12. [PDF]
 
  • Pieczka A, Evans RJ, Grew ES, Groat LA, Ma C, Rossman GR (2013) Nioboholtite, IMA 2012-068. CNMNC Newsletter No. 15, February 2013, page 7. Mineralogical Magazine, 77, 1-12. [PDF]
 
  • Pieczka A, Evans RJ, Grew ES, Groat LA, Ma C, Rossman GR (2013) Titanoholtite, IMA 2012-069. CNMNC Newsletter No. 15, February 2013, page 7. Mineralogical Magazine, 77, 1-12. [PDF]
 
  • Pieczka A, Evans RJ, Grew ES, Groat LA, Ma C, Rossman GR (2013) Szklaryite, IMA 2012-070. CNMNC Newsletter No. 15, February 2013, page 8. Mineralogical Magazine, 77, 1-12. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Krot AN, Bizzarro M (2013) Discovery of meteoritic dmisteinbergite (hexagonal CaAl2Si2O8) in the Allende Type B FUN CAI STP-1: a new refractory mineral. 44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract # 1440. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Beckett JR, Connolly Jr HC, Rossman GR (2013) Discovery of meteoritic loveringite, Ca(Ti,Fe,Cr,Mg)21O38, in an Allende chondrule: Late-stage crystallization in a melt droplet. 44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract # 1443. [PDF]
 
  • Boyce JW, Guan Y, Treiman AH, Greenwood JP, Eiler JM, Ma C (2013) Volatile components in the moon: Abundances and isotope ratios of Cl and H in lunar apatites. 44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract # 2851. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Beckett JR, Rossman GR (2012) Browneite, MnS, a new sphalerite-group mineral from the Zaklodzie meteorite. American Mineralogist, 97, 2056-2059. [PDF reprint]
 
  • Caillet Komorowski C, El Goresy A, Miyahara M, Boudouma O, Ma C (2012) Discovery of Hg-Cu-bearing metal-sulfide assemblages in a primitive H-3 chondrite: Towards a new insight in early solar system processes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 349-350, 261-271. [html]
 
  • Ma C (2012) Discovery of meteoritic eringaite, Ca3(Sc,Y,Ti)2Si3O12, the first solar garnet? Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 47 (S1), A256. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Tschauner O, Beckett JR, Rossman GR, Liu W (2012) Discovery of kangite, (Sc,Ti,Al,Zr,Mg,Ca,[])2O3, a new ultra-refractory mineral in Allende. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 47 (S1), A257. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Tschauner O, Beckett JR, Rossman GR, Liu W (2012) Panguite, (Ti4+,Sc,Al,Mg,Zr,Ca)1.8O3, a new ultra-refractory titania mineral from the Allende meteorite: Synchrotron micro-diffraction and EBSD. American Mineralogist, 97, 1219-1225. [PDF reprint] [Caltech News] [Yahoo News]
 
  • Ma C, Beckett JR, Rossman GR (2012) Buseckite, (Fe,Zn,Mn)S, a new mineral from the Zaklodzie meteorite. American Mineralogist, 97, 1226-1233. [PDF reprint]
 
  • Ma C (2012) Browneite, IMA 2012-008. CNMNC Newsletter No. 13, June 2012, page 814. Mineralogical Magazine, 76, 807-817. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Tschauner O, Rossman GR, Liu W (2012) Kangite, IMA 2011-092. CNMNC Newsletter No. 12, February 2012, page 155. Mineralogical Magazine, 76, 151-155. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Beckett JR, Rossman GR (2012) Discovery of buseckite, (Fe,Zn,Mn)S, a new mineral in Zaklodzie, an ungrouped enstatite-rich achondrite. 43rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract # 1520. [PDF]
 
  • Boyce JW, Ma C, Eiler JM, Baker MB, Liu Y, Stolper EM, Taylor LA (2012) Sulfur speciation in lunar and terrestrial apatite. 43rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract # 2675. [PDF]
 
  • Rossman GR, Ma C, Kampf AR (2011) Quartz carving with inclusions of izoklakeite. Gems & Gemology, 47, 324-325.
 
  • Ma C (2011) Buseckite, IMA 2011-070. CNMNC Newsletter No. 11, December 2011, page 2891. Mineralogical Magazine, 75, 2887-2893. [PDF]
 
  • Mills SJ, Ma C, Birch WD (2011) A contribution to understanding the complex nature of peisleyite. Mineralogical Magazine, 75, 2733-2737. [PDF reprint]
 
  • Ma C, Beckett JR, Rossman GR (2011) Murchisite, Cr5S6, a new mineral from the Murchison meteorite. American Mineralogist, 96, 1905-1908. [PDF reprint]
 
  • Ma C (2011) Discovery of meteoritic lakargiite (CaZrO3), a new ultra-refractory mineral from the Acfer 094 carbonaceous chondrite. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 46 (S1), A144. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Beckett JR, Tschauner O, Rossman GR (2011) Thortveitite (Sc2Si2O7), the first solar silicate? Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 46 (S1), A144. [PDF]
 
  • Connolly Jr HC, Beckett JR, Huss GR, Nagashima K, Young ED, Ziegler K, Ma C, Rossman GR (2011) Allende 3509 HC-2: a compact Type A - 'F' inclusion with a snake-like morphology. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 46 (S1), A47. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Connolly Jr HC, Beckett JR, Tschauner O, Rossman GR, Kampf AR, Zega TJ, Sweeney Smith SA, Schrader DL (2011) Brearleyite, Ca12Al14O32Cl2, a new alteration mineral from the NWA 1934 meteorite. American Mineralogist, 96, 1199-1206. [PDF reprint]
 
  • Ma C, Kampf AR, Connolly Jr HC, Beckett JR, Rossman GR, Sweeney Smith SA, Schrader DL (2011) Krotite, CaAl2O4, a new refractory mineral from the NWA 1934 meteorite. American Mineralogist, 96, 709-715. [PDF reprint] [News 1] [News 2] [News 3]
 
  • Mills SJ, Kartashov PM, Ma C, Rossman GR, Novgorodova MI, Kampf AR, Raudsepp M (2011) Yttriaite-(Y): the natural occurrence of Y2O3 from the Bol'shaya Pol'ya river, Subpolar Urals, Russia. American Mineralogist, 96, 1166-1170. [PDF reprint]
 
  • Ma C, Connolly Jr HC, Beckett JR, Rossman GR, Kampf AR, Zega TJ, Tschauner O, Sweeney Smith SA, Schrader DL (2011) Brearleyite, IMA 2010-062. CNMNC Newsletter No. 7, February 2011, page 31. Mineralogical Magazine, 75, 27-31. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Tschauner O, Rossman GR, Liu W (2011) Panguite, IMA 2010-057. CNMNC Newsletter No. 7, February 2011, page 30. Mineralogical Magazine, 75, 27-31. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Tschauner O, Beckett JR, Kiefer B, Rossman GR, Liu W (2011) Discovery of panguite, a new ultra-refractory titania mineral in Allende. 42nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract 1276. [PDF]
 
  • Beckett JR, Ma C, Connolly Jr HC, Stolper EM (2011) Origin of the refractory component in ferromagnesian chondrules and constraints on their thermal histories: clues from glass inclusions in olivine from carbonaceous chondrites. 42nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract 2071. [PDF]
 
  • Connolly Jr HC, Huss GR, Shahar A, Nagashima AK, Young ED, Ebel DS, Weisberg MK, Beckett JR, Paque JM, Ma C, Rossman GR (2011) Diffusion within the CAI Bocce Ball 1: the redistribution of 26Mg* correlated with variations in Al/Mg within a Type B2 inclusion from Allende. 42nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract 1858. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Kampf AR, Connolly Jr HC, Beckett JR, Rossman GR, Sweeney Smith SA, Schrader DL (2010) Krotite, IMA 2010-038. CNMNC Newsletter 5, October 2010, page 901. Mineralogical Magazine, 74, 899-902. [PDF]
 
  • Mills SJ, Kartashov PM, Ma C, Rossman GR, Novgorodova MI, Kampf AR, Raudsepp M (2010) IMA 2010-039 (Y2O3). CNMNC Newsletter 5, October 2010, page 901. Mineralogical Magazine, 74, 899-902. [PDF]
 
  • Dauphas N, Remusat L, Chen JH, Roskosz M, Papanastassiou DA, Stodolna J, Guan Y, Ma C, Eiler JM (2010) Neutron-rich chromium isotope anomalies in supernova nanoparticles. The Astrophysical Journal, 720, 1577-1591. [PDF reprint]
 
  • Ma C (2010) Murchisite, IMA 2010-003. CNMNC Newsletter 2, April 2010, page 377. Mineralogical Magazine, 74, 375-377. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Sweeney Smith SA, Connolly HC Jr, Rossman GR, Beckett JR, Schrader DL (2010) Discovery of Cl-bearing mayenite, Ca12Al14O32Cl2, a new mineral in a CV3 meteorite. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 45 (S), A123. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Beckett JR, Rossman GR (2010) Discovery of a new chromium sulfide mineral, Cr5S6, in Murchison. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 45 (S), A124. [PDF]
 
  • Dauphas N, Remusat L, Chen JH, Roskosz M, Papanastassiou DA, Stodolna J, Guan Y, Ma C, Eiler JM (2010) Supernova Nanoparticles are the Carriers of 54Cr Anomalies in Planetary Materials. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 45 (S), A42. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C (2010) Nano-mineralogy by advanced electron microscopy: Discovering new minerals in the early solar system. Annual Meeting of Southern California Society for Microscopy & Microanalysis . A talk on March 11, 2010.
 
  • Ma C (2010) Hibonite-(Fe), (Fe,Mg)Al12O19, a new alteration mineral from the Allende meteorite. American Mineralogist, 95, 188-191. [PDF reprint]
 
  • Ma C, Beckett JR, Rossman GR (2010) Grossmanite, davisite, and kushiroite: three newly-approved diopside-group clinopyroxenes in CAIs. 41st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract 1494. [PDF]
 
  • Sweeney Smith SA, Connolly HC Jr, Ma C, Rossman GR, Beckett JR, Ebel DS, Schrader DL (2010) Initial analysis of a refractory inclusion rich in CaAl2O4 from NWA 1934: Cracked Egg. 41st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract 1877. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Rossman GR (2009) Grossmanite, CaTi3+AlSiO6, a new pyroxene from the Allende meteorite. American Mineralogist, 94, 1491-1494. [PDF reprint] [Definition]
 
  • Ma C, Simon SB, Rossman GR, Grossman L (2009) Calcium Tschermak’s pyroxene, CaAlAlSiO6, from the Allende and Murray meteorites: EBSD and micro-Raman characterizations. American Mineralogist,94, 1483-1486. [PDF reprint]
 
  • Tschauner O, Asimow PD, Kostandova N, Ahrens TJ, Ma C, Sinogeikin S, Liu Z, Fakra S, Tamura N (2009) Ultrafast growth of wadsleyite in shock-produced melts and its implications for early solar system impact processes. PNAS, 106, 13691-13695. [PDF reprint]
 
  • Ma C, Beckett JR, Rossman GR (2009) Discovery of a new phosphide mineral, monipite (MoNiP), in an Allende Type B1 CAI. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 44 (S), A127. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Beckett JR, Rossman GR (2009) Discovery of a Mg-dominant analog of kamiokite, Mg2Mo3O8, a new mineral from an Allende Type B1 CAI. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 44 (S), A128. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Rossman GR (2009) Tistarite, Ti2O3, a new refractory mineral from the Allende meteorite. American Mineralogist, 94, 841-844. [PDF reprint]
 
  • Ma C, Rossman GR (2009) Davisite, CaScAlSiO6, a new pyroxene from the Allende meteorite. American Mineralogist, 94, 845-848. [PDF reprint]
 
  • Ma C, Beckett JR, Rossman GR (2009) Allendeite and hexamolybdenum: two new ultra-refractory minerals in Allende and two missing links. 40th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract 1402. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Beckett JR, Rossman GR, Connolly HC Jr, Guan Y, Eiler JM, Hofmann AE (2009) In-situ discovery of a cluster of refractory grains in an Allende ferromagnesian chondrule. 40th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract 2138. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C (2008) Discovering new minerals in the early solar system: a nano-mineralogy investigation. Eos Trans. AGU, 89, Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract MR12A-01 Invited. [html1] [html2] This talk was also presented at the Caltech Geology Club. [html]
 
  • Tschauner O, Ma C, Asimow PD, Kostandova N (2008) Fe2SiO4-rich spinel as mineral in a shocked meteorite - constraints on P-T conditions during shock. Eos Trans. AGU, 89, Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract MR13B-1705. [html]
 
  • Huang Y, Rossman G, Guan Y, Ma C (2008) Intercalibration of FTIR and SIMS for Hydrogen Measurements in Garnets. Eos Trans. AGU, 89, Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract MR53A-1717. [html]
 
  • Ma C (2008) Discovering new minerals: an EBSD approach. Microbeam Analysis Society Topical Conference - Electron Back Scatter Diffraction 2008, Abs.
 
  • Ma C, Rossman GR (2008) Discovery of tazheranite (cubic zirconia) in the Allende meteorite. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 72, 12S, A577. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Rossman GR (2008) Barioperovskite, BaTiO3, a new mineral from the Benitoite Mine, California. American Mineralogist, 93, 154-157. [html] [PDF reprint]
 
  • Ma C, Beckett JR, Connolly HC, Rossman GR (2008) Aluminous spinels in ferromagnesian chondrules from Allende. 39th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract 2030. [PDF]
 
  • Ertl A, Rossman GR, Hughes JM, Ma C, Brandstatter F (2008) V3+-bearing, Mg-rich strongly disordered olenite from a graphite deposit near Amstall, Lower Austria: A structural, chemical and spectroscopic investigation. Neues Jarhbuch fur Mineralogie,184, 243-353. [PDF reprint]
 
  • Ma C, Rossman GR (2007) Challenge to electron microprobe analysis by nano-features in geo-materials. Eos Trans. AGU, 88 (52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V51A-0323. [html]
 
  • Ma C, Rossman GR (2007) Nano-mineralogy studies by advanced electron microscopy. Microscopy and Microanalysis, 13, Suppl 2, 164-165. [PDF] [html]
 
  • Ma C, Rossman GR, Miller JA (2007) The origin of color in "fire" obsidian. Canadian Mineralogist, 45, 551-557. [html] [PDF reprint]
 
  • Luo SN, Peralta PD, Ma C, Paisley DL, Greenfield SR, Loomis EN (2007) Sapphire (0001) surface modifications induced by long pulse 1054-nm laser irradiation. Applied Surface Science, 253, 9457-9466. [PDF reprint]
 
  • Luo SN, Swadener JG, Ma C, Tschauner O (2007) Examining crystallographic orientation dependence of hardness of silica stishovite. Physica B: Condensed Matter, 399, 138-142. [PDF reprint]
 
  • Peralta PD, Luo SN, Ma C, Paisley DL (2007) Laser-induced damages to sapphire single crystals. The 15th Biennial American Physical Society Topical Conference on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter, BAPS.2007.SHOCK.G2.6. [html]
 
  • Ma C, Rossman GR (2006) Ganterite, the barium mica Ba0.5K0.5Al2(Al1.5Si2.5)O10(OH)2, from Oreana, Nevada. American Mineralogist, 91, 702-705. [PDF reprint]
 
  • Ma C, Rossman GR (2006) Low voltage FESEM of geological materials. Microscopy Today, 14 (1). (Invited re-publication of our MM2003 presentation) [PDF reprint]
 
  • Ma C, Rossman GR (2005) Microanalysis of hafnian zircon. Microscopy and Microanalysis, 11, Suppl 2, 1304-1305. [PDF]
 
  • Ma C, Rossman GR (2003) Low voltage FESEM of geological materials. Microscopy and Microanalysis, 9, Suppl 2, 990-991.
 
  • Ma C, Goreva JS, Rossman GR (2002) Fibrous nanoinclusions in massive rose quartz: HRTEM and AEM investigations. American Mineralogist, 87, 269-276. [PDF reprint]
 
  • Piere D, Ma C, Simpson JJ, Hufford GL, Grindle T, Grove C (2002) Analyses if in-situ airborne volcanic ash from the February 2000 eruption of Hekla Volcano, Iceland. Geophysical Research Letters, 29, 16, 10.1029/2001GL013688. [PDF reprint]
 
  • Ma C, Gresh J, Rossman GR, Ulmer GC, Vicenzi EP (2001) Micro-analytical study of optical properties of Mexican rainbow and sheen obsidians. Canadian Mineralogist, 39, 57-71. [html] [PDF reprint]
 
  • Goreva JS, Ma C, Rossman GR (2001) Fibrous nanoinclusions in massive rose quartz: The source of rose coloration. American Mineralogist,86, 466-472. [PDF reprint]
 
  • Ma C, Eggleton RA, Rossman GR (2001) Electron microscopic investigation of Fe-rich phyllosilicates. Microscopy and Microanalysis, 7, Suppl 2, 538-539.
 
  • Ma C, Goreva JS, Rossman GR (2001) Colored varieties of quartz arising from inclusions. The 11th Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, Abstract 3676. [PDF]
 
  • Yang K, Huntington J, Browne PRL, Ma C (2000) An infrared spectral reflectance study of hydrothermal alteration minerals from the Te Mihi sector of the Wairakei geothermal system, New Zealand. Geothermics, 29, 377-392.
 
  • Ma C, Eggleton RA (2000) High-resolution TEM investigation of halloysite. Microscopy and Microanalysis, 6, Suppl 2, 416-417.
 
  • Ma C, Eggleton RA (1999) Surface layer types of kaolinite: a high-resolution transmission electron microscope study. Clays and Clay Minerals, 47, 181-191. [html] [PDF reprint]
 
  • Ma C, Eggleton RA (1999) Cation exchange capacity of kaolinite. Clays and Clay Minerals, 47, 174-180. [html] [ PDF reprint]
 
  • Ma C, Rossman GR (1999) Complex layer stacking in muscovite: a HRTEM study. Microscopy and Microanalysis, 5, Suppl 2, 152-153.
 
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