Spatial grain size sorting in eolian ripples and estimation of wind conditions on planetary surfaces: Application to Meridiani Planum, Mars

By Doug Jerolmack, D. Mohrig, John P. Grotzinger, D. Fike, Wesley A. Watters. 2006

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes

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Citations in the corpus

• On aeolian transport: Grain-scale interactions, dynamical mechanisms and scaling laws (2011, background): “The rough estimates of grain size on dunes, based on thermal diffusion, overestimate this observation by a factor of two (Fenton, 2003; Fenton and Mellon, 2006; Fergason et al., 2006; Jerolmack et al., 2006).”
• Overview of the Opportunity Mars Exploration Rover mission to Meridiani Planum: Eagle crater to Purgatory ripple (2006, background): “Others present geologic findings from multiple payload elements [Glotch et al., 2006b; Golombek et al., 2006; Jerolmack et al., 2006; Weitz et al., 2006; Yen et al., 2006].”
• Redistribution of particles across the nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (2015, background): “Jerolmack et al. (2006) noted that aeolian ripples should be separated into splash ripples, where there is little difference between particles on the crests and in the troughs, and coarsegrained ripples, where larger particles are found preferentially on the crests.”
• Ancient Martian aeolian processes and palaeomorphology reconstructed from the Stimson formation on the lower slope of Aeolis Mons, Gale crater, Mars (2018, background): “Interpretation The bimodal grain-size distribution observed is characteristic of wind-blown sediments (Sharp, 1963; Greeley & Iversen, 1985; Jerolmack et al., 2006), in which saltating particles can facilitate transport of grains too large to saltate by surface creep.”
• The Sedimentary Rock Record of Mars: Distribution, Origins, and Global Stratigraphy (2012, background): “Future work that helps prove they are indeed lag deposits like those at Meridiani Planum (e.g., Jerolmack et al. 2006) or that shows the presence of diagenetic contacts within the ILD would help support their interpretation as sulfate-cemented sandstones.”