The Río Tinto Basin, Spain: Mineralogy, sedimentary geobiology, and implications for interpretation of outcrop rocks at Meridiani Planum, Mars

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 240, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 149-167

  Fernández Remolar, David C ^a   Morris, Richard V ^b   Gruener, John E ^b   Amils, Ricardo ^a,d   Knoll, Andrew H ^c  

^a CENTRO DE ASTROBIOLOGÍA CSIC INTA   (Spain)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chemical weathering; Geobiology; Hematite; Mars; Meridiani Planum; R o Tinto basin

Indexed keywords

GEOBIOLOGY; HEMATITE; MARTIAN ASTROBIOLOGY;

EVAPORATION; GROUNDWATER; HYDROLYSIS; MINERALOGY; OXIDATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; WEATHERING;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

CHEMICAL WEATHERING; HEMATITE; MARS; NATURAL ANALOG;

EMMELICHTHYS STRUHSAKERI; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 27944449281     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.09.043     Document Type: Article

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