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  1. Elemental Composition and Isochemical Characteristics of the Clay‐Sulfate Transition in Gale Crater, Mars: APXS Results From Mont Mercou to the Marker Band Valley

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Planets, November 2025, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Jeff Berger

  2. Amapari Marker Band, Gale Crater, Mars: Event Horizon With Highest Bedrock Iron and Zinc Concentrations Detected by Curiosity's Alpha Particle X‐Ray Spectrometer

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, November 2024, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Jeff Berger

  3. Gypsum on Mars: A Detailed View at Gale Crater

    Article • Minerals, August 2024, MDPI AG

    Jeff Berger

  4. Amapari Marker Band, Gale crater, Mars: Event horizon with highest bedrock iron and zinc concentrations detected by Curiosity’s Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer

    Article • July 2024, Wiley

    Jeff Berger

  5. Phosphates on Mars and Their Importance as Igneous, Aqueous, and Astrobiological Indicators

    Article • Minerals, June 2024, MDPI AG

    Jeff Berger

  6. The Chemistry and Mineralogy (CheMin) X-ray Diffractometer on the MSL Curiosity Rover: A Decade of Mineralogy from Gale Crater, Mars

    Article • Minerals, May 2024, MDPI AG

    Jeff Berger

  7. Manganese-Iron Phosphate Nodules at the Groken Site, Gale Crater, Mars

    Article • Minerals, August 2023, MDPI AG

    Jeff Berger

  8. Experimental constraints on the volatility of germanium, zinc, and lithium in Martian basalts and the role of degassing in alteration of surface minerals

    Article • Meteoritics and Planetary Science, June 2023, Wiley

    Jeff Berger

  9. Alteration at the Base of the Siccar Point Unconformity and Further Evidence for an Alkaline Provenance at Gale Crater: Exploration of the Mount Sharp Group, Greenheugh Pediment Cap Rock Contact With APXS

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Planets, November 2022, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Jeff Berger

  10. Manganese Mobility in Gale Crater, Mars: Leached Bedrock and Localized Enrichments

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Planets, October 2022, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Jeff Berger

  11. Statistical Analysis of APXS‐Derived Chemistry of the Clay‐Bearing Glen Torridon Region and Mount Sharp Group, Gale Crater, Mars

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Planets, September 2022, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Jeff Berger

  12. Alteration at the base of the Siccar Point unconformity and further evidence for an alkaline provenance at Gale crater: Exploration of the Mount Sharp group, Greenheugh pediment cap rock contact with APXS

    Article • April 2022, Wiley

    Jeff Berger

  13. Statistical analysis of APXS-derived chemistry of the clay-bearing Glen Torridon region and Mount Sharp group, Gale crater, Mars

    Article • January 2022, Wiley

    Jeff Berger

  14. Alteration at the base of the Siccar Point unconformity and further evidence for an alkaline provenance at Gale crater: Exploration of the Mount Sharp group, Greenheugh pediment cap rock contact with APXS

    Article • January 2022, Wiley

    Jeff Berger

  15. Manganese Mobility in Gale Crater, Mars: Leached Bedrock and Localized Enrichments

    Article • January 2022, Wiley

    Jeff Berger

  16. Elemental Composition and Chemical Evolution of Geologic Materials in Gale Crater, Mars: APXS Results From Bradbury Landing to the Vera Rubin Ridge

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Planets, December 2020, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Jeff Berger

  17. Effects of micrometer-scale surface roughness on thermal infrared emittance spectra of silica glass

    Article • Icarus, November 2020, Elsevier

    Jeff Berger

  18. APXS‐Derived Compositional Characteristics of Vera Rubin Ridge and Murray Formation, Gale Crater, Mars: Geochemical Implications for the Origin of the Ridge

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Planets, October 2020, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Jeff Berger

  19. Particle Induced X-ray Emission spectrometry (PIXE) of Hawaiian volcanics: An analogue study to evaluate the APXS field analysis of geologic materials on Mars

    Article • Icarus, July 2020, Elsevier

    Jeff Berger

  20. Elemental composition and chemical evolution of geologic materials in Gale crater, Mars: APXS results from Bradbury Landing to the Vera Rubin Ridge

    Article • June 2020, Wiley

    Jeff Berger

  21. Chemical Diversity of Sands Within the Linear and Barchan Dunes of the Bagnold Dunes, Gale Crater, as Revealed by APXS Onboard Curiosity

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, September 2018, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Jeff Berger

  22. APXS-derived chemistry of the Bagnold dune sands: Comparisons with Gale Crater soils and the global Martian average

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Planets, December 2017, Wiley

    Jeff Berger, Jeff Berger

  23. Zinc and germanium in the sedimentary rocks of Gale Crater on Mars indicate hydrothermal enrichment followed by diagenetic fractionation

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Planets, August 2017, Wiley

    Jeff Berger, Jeff Berger

  24. A global Mars dust composition refined by the Alpha‐Particle X‐ray Spectrometer in Gale Crater

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, January 2016, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Jeff Berger, Jeff Berger

  25. Effect of halite coatings on thermal infrared spectra

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, April 2015, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Jeff Berger, Jeff Berger

  26. MSL-APXS titanium observation tray measurements: Laboratory experiments and results for the Rocknest fines at theCuriosityfield site in Gale Crater, Mars

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Planets, May 2014, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Jeff Berger, Jeff Berger