Volume 68 of Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry reviews Oxygen in the Solar System an
element that is so critically important in so many ways to planetary science. The book is based
on three open workshops:Oxygen in the Terrestrial Planets held in Santa Fe NM July 20-23
2004 Oxygen in Asteroids and Meteorites held in Flagstaff AZ June 2-3 2005 and Oxygen in
Earliest Solar System Materials and Processes (and including the outer planets and comets)
held in Gatlinburg TN September 19-22 2005. As a consequence of the cross-cutting approach
the final book spans a wide range of fields relating to oxygen from the stellar
nucleosynthesis of oxygen to its occurrence in the interstellar medium to the oxidation and
isotopic record preserved in 4.56 Ga grains formed at the Solar System's birth to its
abundance and speciation in planets large and small to its role in the petrologic and physical
evolution of the terrestrial planets. Contents:IntroductionOxygen isotopes in the early Solar
System - A historical perspectiveAbundance notation and fractionation of light stable
isotopesNucleosynthesis and chemical evolution of oxygenOxygen in the interstellar mediumOxygen
in the SunRedox conditions in the solar nebula: observational experimental and theoretical
constraintsOxygen isotopes of chondritic componentsMass-independent oxygen isotope variation in
the solar nebulaOxygen and other volatiles in the giant planets and their satellitesOxygen in
comets and interplanetary dust particlesOxygen and asteroidsOxygen isotopes in asteroidal
materialsOxygen isotopic composition and chemical correlations in meteorites and the
terrestrial planetsRecord of low-temperature alteration in asteroidsThe oxygen cycle of the
terrestrial planets: insights into the processing and history of oxygen in surface
environmentsRedox conditions on small bodies the Moon and MarsTerrestrial oxygen isotope
variations and their implications for planetary lithospheresBasalts as probes of planetary
interior redox stateRheological consequences of redox state
