Laboratory-simulated acid-sulfate weathering of basaltic materials: Implications for formation of sulfates at Meridiani Planum and Gusev crater, Mars

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 110, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1-15

  Golden, D C ^a   Ming, Douglas W ^b   Morris, Richard V ^b   Mertzman, Stanley A ^c  

^a ESCG/UTC HS   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^c FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; MARS; SULFATE; WEATHERING;

EMMELICHTHYS STRUHSAKERI;

EID: 31844443732     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JE002451     Document Type: Article

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