Acid sulfate alteration of fluorapatite, basaltic glass and olivine by hydrothermal vapors and fluids: Implications for fumarolic activity and secondary phosphate phases in sulfate-rich Paso Robles soil at Gusev Crater, Mars

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-13

  Hausrath, E M ^a   Golden, D C ^b   Morris, R V ^c   Agresti, D G ^d   Ming, D W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b JACOBS ENGINEERING   (United States)

^c NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

hydrothermal; Mars; Paso Robles; phosphate; water; weathering

Indexed keywords

ACID SULFATE SOIL; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CRATER; DISSOLUTION; FLUORAPATITE; FUMAROLE; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; MARS; OLIVINE; PHOSPHATE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); TRANSPORT PROCESS; VOLCANIC GLASS;

CALIFORNIA; PASO ROBLES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84878287426     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21699100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JE004246     Document Type: Article

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