Clues to Martian Paleoclimate: Ice Reservoirs, Sediment Transport, and Depositional Environments

Schon, Samuel C.

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Year:: 2012
Contributor:: Schon, Samuel C (creator); Head, James (Director); Russell, James (Director); Herbert, Timothy (Reader); Pieters, Carle (Reader); Marchant, David (Reader); Brown University. Geological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: sediment deposition; ice reservoirs; Mars; climate; Sediment transport; Sedimentation and deposition; Climatology; Remote sensing; Mars (Planet)
Extent:: xxiv, 367 p.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7301/Z0BG2M8S

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Abstract:: The history of Mars’ paleoclimate is explored using sedimentary records from both the Noachian and Amazonian periods. Sedimentary structures indicative of a progradational delta are described in a Noachian-aged paleolake basin. Studies of gullies on Mars and the development of a chronostratigraphic marker show that gullies have been active in the recent geologic past. Ice-rich latitude-dependent mantling deposits are a likely source of meltwater for gully activity. These mantling deposits date from a recent obliquity-controlled ice age, are younger at high latitudes, and extend equatorially to approximately 30 degrees north and south latitude.
Notes:: Thesis (Ph.D. -- Brown University (2012)

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Schon, Samuel C., "Clues to Martian Paleoclimate: Ice Reservoirs, Sediment Transport, and Depositional Environments" (2012). Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences Theses and Dissertations. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://doi.org/10.7301/Z0BG2M8S

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