Secondary Fe and Al in Antarctic paleosols: Correlation to Mars with prospect for the presence of life

Icarus

Volumn 203, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 320-330

  Mahaney, William C ^a,b   Dohm, James ^c   Kapran, Barbara ^a,b   Hancock, Ronald G V ^d   Milner, Michael W ^e  

^a Quaternary Surveys   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e MWM Consulting   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antarctic paleosols; Extractable Fe Al in paleosols; Terrestrial analogues of martian paleosols

Indexed keywords

EID: 68749096873     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.05.007     Document Type: Article

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