Cerro negro volcano, Nicaragua: An assessment of geological and potential biological systems on early mars

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 483, Issue , 2011, Pages 279-285

  Hynek, Brian M ^a   McCollom, Thomas M ^a   Rogers, Karyn L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; MINERAL RESOURCES; ORBITS; SILICA; SULFATE MINERALS; SULFUR; VOLCANOES; WEATHERING;

AMORPHOUS SILICA; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; HYDROTHERMAL ENVIRONMENT; MERIDIANI PLANUM; NEAR SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SILICA-RICH SOIL; TERRESTRIAL ANALOGS; WEATHERED ROCKS;

IRON COMPOUNDS;

BASALT; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; GYPSUM; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; MARS; MINERAL DEPOSIT; PH; SPACECRAFT; SULFATE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CERRO NEGRO VOLCANO; LEON [NICARAGUA]; NICARAGUA;

EID: 84866628695     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2011.2483(18)     Document Type: Article

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