Open AccessElemental Geochemistry of Sedimentary Rocks at Yellowknife Bay, Gale Crater, Mars
Author(s) -
S. M. McLennan,
R. B. Anderson,
J. F. Bell,
J. C. Bridges,
F. J. Calef,
John Campbell,
B. C. Clark,
S. M. Clegg,
P. G. Conrad,
A. Cousin,
David J. Des Marais,
Gilles Dromart,
M. D. Dyar,
L. A. Edgar,
B. L. Ehlmann,
C. Fabre,
O. Forni,
O. Gasnault,
R. Gellert,
S. Gordon,
J. A. Grant,
J. P. Grotzinger,
Sanjeev Gupta,
K. E. Herkenhoff,
J. A. Hurowitz,
P. L. King,
Stéphane Le Mouëlic,
L. A. Leshin,
Richard Léveillé,
K. W. Lewis,
N. Mangold,
S. Maurice,
D. W. Ming,
R. V. Morris,
M. Nachon,
H. E. Newsom,
A. Ollila,
G. M. Perrett,
M. S. Rice,
M. E. Schmidt,
S. P. Schwenzer,
K. M. Stack,
Edward M. Stolper,
D. Y. Sumner,
A. H. Treiman,
S. J. VanBommel,
D. T. Vaniman,
A. R. Vasavada,
R. C. Wiens,
R. A. Yingst,
Osku Kemppinen,
Nathan Bridges,
J. R. Johnson,
M. E. Minitti,
David A. Cremers,
Jack D. Farmer,
Austin Godber,
M. Wadhwa,
Danika Wellington,
Ian McEwan,
Claire Newman,
M. I. Richardson,
Antoine Charpentier,
Laurent Péret,
J. G. Blank,
Gerald Weigle,
Shuai Li,
R. E. Milliken,
Kevin M. Robertson,
V. Z. Sun,
Michael B. Baker,
Christopher S. Edwards,
Kenneth Farley,
Jennifer Griffes,
Hayden Miller,
Megan Newcombe,
Cedric Pilorget,
Kirsten Siebach,
C. Brunet,
Victoria Hipkin,
Geneviève Marchand,
Pablo Sobrón Sánchez,
Laurent Favot,
George D. Cody,
A. Steele,
Lorenzo Flückiger,
David Lees,
Ara Nefian,
Mildred Martin,
M. Gailhanou,
Francès Westall,
G. Israël,
Christophe Agard,
Julien Baroukh,
Christophe Donny,
Alain Gaboriaud,
Philippe Guillemot,
Vivian Lafaille,
Eric Lorigny,
Alexis Paillet,
R. Pérez,
M. Saccoccio,
Charles Yana,
Carlos ArmiensAparicio,
Javier Caride Rodríguez,
Isaías Carrasco Blázquez,
Felipe Gómez,
Javier GómezElvira,
Sebastian Hettrich,
Alain Lepinette Malvitte,
Mercedes Marín Jiménez,
Jesús MartínezFrías,
Javier Martín-Soler,
Javier MartínTorres,
Antonio Molina Jurado,
Luis MoraSotomayor,
G. M. Muñoz,
Sara Navarro López,
Verónica Peinado-González,
Jorge PlaGarcía,
J. A. RodríguezManfredi,
Julio José Romeral-Planelló,
Sara Alejandra Sans Fuentes,
Eduardo Sebastián,
J. Torres,
Roser Urqui-O'Callaghan,
MaríaPaz Zorzano,
Steve Chipera,
Jean-Luc Lacour,
Patrick Mauchien,
JeanBaptiste Sirven,
Heidi Manning,
Alberto González Fairén,
A. G. Hayes,
Jonathan Joseph,
S. W. Squyres,
Robert Sullivan,
P. C. Thomas,
Audrey Dupont,
Angela Lundberg,
Noureddine Melikechi,
Alissa Mezzacappa,
Julia DeMarines,
David Grinspoon,
Günther Reitz,
Benito Prats,
Evgeny Atlaskin,
M. Genzer,
AriMatti Harri,
Harri Haukka,
Henrik Kahanpää,
Janne Kauhanen,
Mark Paton,
Jouni Polkko,
W. Schmidt,
Tero Siili,
J. J. Wray,
Mary Beth Wilhelm,
Franck Poitrasson,
Kiran Patel,
Stephen Gorevan,
Stephen Indyk,
G. Paulsen,
D. L. Bish,
Juergen Schieber,
B. Gondet,
Yves Langevin,
Claude Geffroy,
D. Baratoux,
Gilles Berger,
Alain Cros,
C. d’Uston,
Jérémie Lasue,
Qiu-Mei Lee,
Pierre-Yves Meslin,
E. Pallier,
Yann Parot,
P. Pinet,
Susanne Schröder,
Mike Toplis,
Éric Lewin,
W. Brunner,
Ezat Heydari,
Cherie Achilles,
Dorothy Oehler,
B. Sutter,
M. Cabane,
David Coscia,
Cyril Szopa,
François Robert,
Violaine Sautter,
A. Buch,
Fabien Stalport,
Patrice Coll,
Pascaline François,
F. Raulin,
Samuel Teinturier,
James F. Cameron,
Dorothea DeLapp,
Robert Dingler,
Ryan S. Jackson,
Stephen Johnstone,
N. Lanza,
Cynthia Little,
Tony Nelson,
Richard B. Williams,
Andrea Jones,
L. E. Kirkland,
Burt Baker,
B. A. Cantor,
M. A. Caplinger,
Scott Davis,
Brian Duston,
K. S. Edgett,
Donald Fay,
C. Hardgrove,
David Harker,
Paul Herrera,
Elsa Jensen,
Megan R. Kennedy,
Gillian Krezoski,
Daniel Krysak,
Leslie Lipkaman,
M. C. Malin,
Elaina McCartney,
Sean McNair,
Brian Nixon,
Liliya Posiolova,
M. A. Ravine,
Andrew Salamon,
Lee Saper,
Kevin Stoiber,
Kimberley Supulver,
Jason Van Beek,
Tessa Van Beek,
Robert Zimdar,
Katherine L. French,
Karl Iagnemma,
Kristen Miller,
Roger E. Summons,
Fred Goesmann,
W. Goetz,
S. F. Hviid,
Micah Johnson,
Matthew Lefavor,
Eric Lyness,
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David F. Blake,
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Jeff Hollingsworth,
M. A. Kahre,
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W. B. Brinckerhoff,
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Jason P. Dworkin,
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Melissa Floyd,
Caroline Freissinet,
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A. C. McAdam,
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Michael D. Smith,
J. C. Stern,
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Robert C. Anderson,
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L. W. Beegle,
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Diana Blaney,
D. E. Brinza,
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Lauren DeFlores,
Jason Feldman,
Sabrina Feldman,
Gregory J. Flesch,
Insoo Jun,
Didier Keymeulen,
Justin Maki,
Michael Mischna,
John Michael Morookian,
T. J. Parker,
Betina Pavri,
Marcel Schoppers,
Aaron Sengstacken,
John J. Simmonds,
N. Spanovich,
Manuel de la Torre Juarez,
Christopher R. Webster,
A. S. Yen,
P. D. Archer,
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P. B. Niles,
Elizabeth Rampe,
Thomas Nolan,
M. R. Fisk,
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T. Olson,
Noel Stewart,
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V. E. Hamilton,
Donald M. Hassler,
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Scot Rafkin,
C. Zeitlin,
F. Fedosov,
Dmitry Golovin,
Natalya Karpushkina,
Alexander Kozyrev,
M. L. Litvak,
A. Malakhov,
И. Г. Митрофанов,
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Sergey Nikiforov,
В. А. Прохоров,
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Ruslan Kuzmin,
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Keri Bean,
M. T. Lemmon,
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J. J. Blanco,
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Irina Pradler,
Samantha Jacob,
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Hannu Savijärvi,
Eckart Boehm,
Stephan Böttcher,
S. Burmeister,
Jingnan Guo,
Jan Köhler,
César Martín García,
Reinhold Mueller-Mellin,
R. F. WimmerSchweingruber,
Timothy McConnochie,
M. Benna,
H. B. Franz,
Hannah Bower,
Anna Brunner,
Hannah Blau,
Thomas Boucher,
Marco Carmosino,
S. K. Atreya,
Harvey Elliott,
Douglas Halleaux,
N. O. Rennó,
Michael Wong,
Robert O. Pepin,
Beverley Elliott,
J. G. Spray,
L. M. Thompson,
Joshua Williams,
Paulo Vasconcelos,
Jennifer Bentz,
Kenneth H. Nealson,
Radu Popa,
Linda C. Kah,
J. Moersch,
Christopher Tate,
Mackenzie Day,
Gary Kocurek,
B. Hallet,
R. S. Sletten,
Raymond Francis,
E. McCullough,
Ed Cloutis,
I. L. ten Kate,
R. E. Arvidson,
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Daniel Scholes,
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Thomas Stein,
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Jeffrey Berger,
John E. Moores
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 12.556
H-Index - 1186
eISSN - 1095-9203
pISSN - 0036-8075
DOI - 10.1126/science.1244734
Subject(s) - geology , mars exploration program , sedimentary rock , geochemistry , bay , impact crater , astrobiology , oceanography , physics
International audienceSedimentary rocks examined by the Curiosity rover at Yellowknife Bay, Mars, were derived from sources that evolved from an approximately average martian crustal composition to one influenced by alkaline basalts. No evidence of chemical weathering is preserved, indicating arid, possibly cold, paleoclimates and rapid erosion and deposition. The absence of predicted geochemical variations indicates that magnetite and phyllosilicates formed by diagenesis under low-temperature, circumneutral pH, rock-dominated aqueous conditions. Analyses of diagenetic features (including concretions, raised ridges, and fractures) at high spatial resolution indicate that they are composed of iron-and halogen-rich components, magnesium-iron-chlorine-rich components, and hydrated calcium sulfates, respectively. Composition of a cross-cutting dike-like feature is consistent with sedimentary intrusion. The geochemistry of these sedimentary rocks provides further evidence for diverse depositional and diagenetic sedimentary environments during the early history of Mars
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