Sedimentary rocks of early Mars.

By Michael C. Malin, K. Edgett. Science, 2000

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Large alluvial fans on Mars (2005, neutral): “The upper components of layered deposits (seen in MOC NA images [ Malin and Edgett, 2000a ]) exposed by ‘‘Uzboi’’ erosion just inside and paralleling the south rim of Holden may, in part, be composed of in-place alluvial fan deposits as these layers appear, in some cases, emerging from the scarps of”
Equatorial and midlatitude distribution of chlorine measured by Mars Odyssey GRS (2007, result): “This possibility is also consistent with the primordial impact basin model by Dohm et al. [2004b], which proposed that Arabia Terra is the site of an ancient, gigantic impact basin that accumulated thick sedimentary deposits of ancient crustal materials from regions surrounding the basin [ Malin and”
Alteration Assemblages in Martian Meteorites: Implications for Near-Surface Processes (2001, background): “It seems probable that the ocean, if it existed, predated some ancient highland surface based on layering relationships (e.g. Malin and Edgett, 2000b).”
The Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) for the Mars 2001 Odyssey Mission (2004, background): “Aeolian Sediments and Morphology Sedimentary deposits on Mars range from micron thick dust coatings to km-thick units of layered sediments from the equator (e.g. Tanaka and Leonard, 1995; Tanaka, 1997; Malin and Edgett, 2000) to the poles (Herkenhoff and Murray, 1990b; Thomas et al., 1992).”
Ancient Martian aeolian processes and palaeomorphology reconstructed from the Stimson formation on the lower slope of Aeolis Mons, Gale crater, Mars (2018, background): “Whilst exploring the sedimentary succession cropping out on the northern flank of Aeolis Mons, Gale crater, the Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity encountered a decametre-thick sandstone succession, named the Stimson formation, unconformably overlying lacustrine deposits of the Murray formation”
Sedimentary silica on Mars (2003, background): “…growing support for suggestions of major subsurface reservoirs of water (Boynton et al., 2002), the possibility of a long-term sedimentary record (Malin and Edgett, 2000), and even the possibility of an ocean in the northern plains (e.g., Head et al., 1999) at various times during the history of…”
Mars Science Laboratory Mission and Science Investigation (2012, background): “The geology, mineralogy, context, and description of potential exploration targets of the Gale crater field area are presented in Malin and Edgett (2000), Anderson and Bell (2010), Milliken et al. (2010), and Thomson et al. (2011).”
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) (2007, background): “The two favored origins for the layering are deposition of material in standing bodies of water [e.g., Nedell et al., 1987;Malin and Edgett, 2000b] or volcanism [e.g.,Chapman and Tanaka, 2001; Komatsu et al., 2004].”
Geologic history of Mars (2010, background): “One the most striking characteristic of these sediments, irrespective of their age, is their rhythmic layering, which in some cases is remarkably regular (Malin and Edgett, 2000; Lewis et al., 2008).”
EARLY CRUSTAL EVOLUTION OF MARS 1 (2005, background): “Noachian materials (N materials) that make up rugged, highly cratered, commonly layered terrains in highland regions embay EN massif material and include mixtures of deposits of impact, sedimentary, and volcanic origins (Tanaka et al. 1992, Tanaka 2000, Malin & Edgett 2000, Hynek & Phillips 2001).”
Sequence and timing of conditions on early Mars (2011, background): “expose the remnants of craters from an earlier era (e.g., Grant and Schultz, 1990; Malin and Edgett, 2000; Hartmann and Neukum, 2001).”
Selection of the Mars Science Laboratory Landing Site (2012, background): “An ellipse in Gale crater is north-northwest of a ∼5 km-thick sequence of layered materials (Cabrol et al. 1999; Malin and Edgett 2000, 2001a, 2001b) possessing an intriguing sequence of phyllosilicate-bearing layers beneath sulfate-bearing layers, implying at least some of the sequence was…”
The nature of coarse-grained crystalline hematite and its implications for the early environment of Mars (2003, background): “the other hand, such layering is ubiquitous throughout ancient terrain on Mars (Malin and Edgett, 2000), wher exposures of gray hematite are rare.”