Abundance of minerals in the phyllosilicate-rich units on Mars

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Petrology on Mars (2015, background): “…only prehnite, chlorite, and analcime have been positively identified in CRISM and OMEGA spectra (Ehlmann et al. 2009; Carter et al. 2013), although unspecified zeolite spectra could include laumontite, and pumpellyite has been suggested based on radiative transfer modeling (Poulet et al. 2008).”
Subsurface water and clay mineral formation during the early history of Mars (2011, background): “55 ); (iii) the pervasive presence of clay minerals in large volumes of Mars’s deepest exposed crustal materials in spite of (iv) thermal infrared and elemental data consistent with the dominance of primary minerals by weight fractio”
Selection of the Mars Science Laboratory Landing Site (2012, background): “The site includes a sequence of sulfate and hydrated mineral bearing layers that likely record ancient aqueous depositional and/or alteration settings good for the preservation of organics and biosignatures (Hynek and Phillips 2008; Hynek et al. 2002; Poulet et al. 2008a).”
Characterization of phyllosilicates observed in the central Mawrth Vallis region, Mars, their potential formational processes, and implications for past climate (2009, methodology): “Modeling by Poulet et al. [2008] based on VNIR-SWIR OMEGA data suggests that a ‘‘flat’’ component such as plagioclase feldspar (15– 35%) is required in order to match the spectra observed by OMEGA and that 20–65% nontronite may be present.”