Wide distribution and glacial origin of polar gypsum on Mars

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 317-318, Issue , 2012, Pages 44-55

  Masse M ^a,b   Bourgeois, O ^a   Le Mouelic S ^a   Verpoorter, C ^c   Spiga, A ^d   Le Deit, L ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^e GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mars; Polar caps; Sulfates; Weathering

Indexed keywords

DUNE FIELDS; GYPSUM CRYSTALS; HYPERSPECTRAL DATA; ICE-CAPS; KATABATIC WINDS; LAYERED DEPOSITS; MARS; MINERALOGICAL COMPOSITIONS; NORTH POLAR CAP; POLAR CAP; REGIONAL DISTRIBUTION; SAND-SIZED PARTICLES; SULFATES; SUPERFICIAL SEDIMENTS;

ABLATION; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; DUST; ICE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SNOW; VENEERS; WEATHERING;

GYPSUM;

ABLATION; DUNE FIELD; GLACIAL HISTORY; GYPSUM; KATABATIC FLOW; MARS; WEATHERING;

EID: 84255195532     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.11.035     Document Type: Article

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