Geochemical modeling of evaporation processes on Mars: Insight from the sedimentary record at Meridiani Planum

By N. Tosca, S. McLennan, B. Clark, John P. Grotzinger, J. Hurowitz, Andrew H. Knoll, C. Schröder, S. Squyres. 2005

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geochemistry and Petrology

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In Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. H. McSween
2. Michael D. Smith
3. James W. Head III
4. Michael J. Wolff
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6. Ralph E. Milliken
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In Geochemistry and Petrology

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Citations in the corpus

• Overview of the Opportunity Mars Exploration Rover mission to Meridiani Planum: Eagle crater to Purgatory ripple (2006, background): “Groundwater dissolution of jarosite may have provided the iron for hematite precipitation, but the fact that substantial amounts of jarosite remain in the rocks requires that diagenesis was strongly water-limited [McLennan et al., 2005; Madden et al., 2004; Tosca et al., 2005; Fernandez-Remolar et a”
• A synthesis of Martian aqueous mineralogy after 1 Mars year of observations from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (2009, background): “The circumpolar gypsum plains are too poorly understood to allow the habitability of their depositional environment to be assessed, however gypsum is expected to precipitate in waters that are much less saline than those that precipitate magnesium sulfates [Tosca et al., 2005].”
• Geologic history of Mars (2010, background): “They can also form by evaporation of waters derived from the weathering (Tosca et al., 2005; Tosca and McLennan, 2006).”
• Mineralogy and evolution of the surface of Mars: A review (2007, background): “This indicates alteration by very acidic water that has not acted for a sufficient time to reequilibrate with the surrounding material (King and McSween, 2005; Madden et al., 2004; Tosca et al., 2005).”
• Mineralogy of the Martian Surface (2014, background): “The presence of jarosite at Meridiani (Klingelhöfer et al. 2004, Tosca et al. 2005); jarosite and alunite in the Terra Sirenum basins (Swayze et al. 2008, Wray et al. 2011); and Fe3+SO4(OH) at Aram Chaos (Lichtenberg et al. 2010) indicates that waters were acidic (pH < 4) at some locations.”
• Sulfur on Mars (2010, background): “…surface is suggested by the abundance of S, the occurrence of jarosite and other Fe3+-sulfates with amorphous silica, experiments simulating the alteration of basalt under acidic conditions, and geochemical models of rover data (Tosca et al. 2005; Tosca and McLennan 2006; Hurowitz et al. 2006).”
• Large-scale spring deposits on Mars? (2008, background): “…have been found to be locally very abundant on Mars from both orbiter [Gendrin et al., 2005] and rover [Grotzinger et al., 2005; Squyres et al., 2004] missions, therefore putative subsurface fluids would be sulfate-rich and likely under acidic conditions [Chevrier et al., 2007; Tosca et al., 2005].”