Abstract Models test our understanding of processes and can reach beyond the spatial and
temporal scales of measurements. Multi-component Reactive Transport Models (RTMs) …

Clay minerals, or analogously phyllosilicates, are some of the most astonishing minerals
ever discovered on Mars due to their roles as indicators of water-rock interaction. Their …

Provides comprehensive coverage of the chemical interactions among organic and
inorganic solids, air, water, microorganisms, and the plant roots in soil This book focuses on …

Early Mars climate research has well-defined goals (MEPAG 2018). Achieving these goals
requires geologists and climate modelers to coordinate. Coordination is easier if results are …

Smelting activity by its very nature produces large amounts of metal-bearing waste, often
called metallurgical slag (s). In the past, industry used to dispose of these waste products at …

Steady-state element release rates from crystalline basalt dissolution at far-from-equilibrium
were measured at pH from 2 to 11 and temperatures from 5 to 75° C in mixed-flow reactors …

Abstract The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover Curiosity has documented a section of
fluvio-lacustrine strata at Yellowknife Bay (YKB), an embayment on the floor of Gale crater …

Studies of rates, processes and modes of rock surface, and near-surface, deterioration, and
also hardening, are central to rock weathering and building stone research, conservation …

Return of samples from the surface of Mars has been a goal of the international Mars
science community for many years. Affirmation by NASA and ESA of the importance of Mars …

Rocks dominated by the silicate minerals quartz and feldspar are abundant in Earth's upper
continental crust. Yet felsic rocks have not been widely identified on Mars, a planet that …