Ancient wet aeolian environments on Earth: Clues to presence of fossil/live microorganisms on Mars

Icarus

Volumn 171, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 39-53

  Mahaney, William C ^a   Milner, Michael W ^a   Netoff, D I ^b   Malloch, David ^c   Dohm, James M ^d   Baker, Victor R ^d   Miyamoto, Hideaki ^d,e   Hare, Trent M ^f   Komatsu, Goro ^g  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Entombed microorganisms on sand clasts; Extraterrestrial life; Pipe like structures on Mars and Earth

Indexed keywords

EID: 4344569976     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2004.04.014     Document Type: Article

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