Spectral and petrologic analyses of basaltic sands in Ka'u Desert (Hawaii) - implications for the dark dunes on Mars

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 434-448

  Tirsch, Daniela ^a   Craddock, Robert Anthony ^b   Platz, Thomas ^c   Maturilli, Alessandro ^a   Helbert, Jörn ^a   Jaumann, Ralf ^a,c  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aeolian processes; Dunes; Mars; Spectroscopy; Terrestrial analogs

Indexed keywords

AEOLIAN DEPOSITS; AEOLIAN PROCESS; AEOLIAN SAND; BASALTIC SANDS; DUNE SANDS; DUNES; FLUVIAL PROCESS; GRAIN SHAPES; LAVA FLOWS; MARS; MINERAL ASSEMBLAGE; PHREATOMAGMATIC ERUPTION; ROCK FRAGMENTS; SAMPLE COMPOSITION; SEDIMENT SOURCES; SPECTRAL DATA; TERRESTRIAL ANALOGS; VOLCANIC ASH; VOLCANIC GLASS; VOLCANIC MATERIALS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BASALT; DEPOSITS; GLASS; OLIVINE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VOLCANOES;

SAND;

BASALT; DUNE FIELD; ELECTRON PROBE ANALYSIS; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; FLUVIAL PROCESS; GRAIN SIZE; MARS; OLIVINE; PETROLOGY; PHREATOMAGMATISM; PLAGIOCLASE; PYROXENE; SAND; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84858621502     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.2266     Document Type: Article

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