Drainage divide migration and implications for climate and biodiversity

C He, J Braun, H Tang, X Yuan… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Drainage divides separate Earth's surface into individual river basins. Divide migration
impacts the evolution of landforms, regional climate, ecosystems and biodiversity. In this …

Geologic constraints on early Mars climate

ES Kite - Space Science Reviews, 2019 - Springer
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 …

[HTML][HTML] The mineral diversity of Jezero crater: Evidence for possible lacustrine carbonates on Mars

BHN Horgan, RB Anderson, G Dromart, ES Amador… - Icarus, 2020 - Elsevier
Noachian-aged Jezero crater is the only known location on Mars where clear orbital
detections of carbonates are found in close proximity to clear fluvio-lacustrine features …

A coupled model of episodic warming, oxidation and geochemical transitions on early Mars

R Wordsworth, AH Knoll, J Hurowitz, M Baum… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Reconciling the geology of Mars with models of atmospheric evolution remains a major
challenge. Martian geology is characterized by past evidence for episodic surface liquid …

Hydrous minerals on Mars as seen by the CRISM and OMEGA imaging spectrometers: Updated global view

J Carter, F Poulet, JP Bibring… - Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The surface of Mars has preserved the record of early environments in which its basaltic
crust was altered by liquid water. These aqueous environments have survived in the form of …

Assessing the mineralogy of the watershed and fan deposits of the Jezero crater paleolake system, Mars

TA Goudge, JF Mustard, JW Head… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We present results from geomorphic map** and visible to near‐infrared spectral analyses
of the Jezero crater paleolake basin and its associated watershed. The goal of this study is …

Stratigraphy and paleohydrology of delta channel deposits, Jezero crater, Mars

TA Goudge, D Mohrig, BT Cardenas, CM Hughes… - Icarus, 2018 - Elsevier
The Jezero crater open-basin lake contains two well-exposed fluvial sedimentary deposits
formed early in martian history. Here, we examine the geometry and architecture of the …

Fluvial regimes, morphometry, and age of Jezero crater paleolake inlet valleys and their exobiological significance for the 2020 Rover Mission Landing Site

N Mangold, G Dromart, V Ansan, F Salese… - Astrobiology, 2020 - liebertpub.com
Jezero crater has been selected as the landing site for the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover,
because it contains a paleolake with two fan-deltas, inlet and outlet valleys. Using the data …

Minimum effective area for high resolution crater counting of martian terrains

NH Warner, S Gupta, F Calef, P Grindrod, N Boll… - Icarus, 2015 - Elsevier
The acquisition of high-resolution imagery for the surface of Mars has enabled map** of
spatially limited (order of< 10 3 km 2) landforms such as alluvial fans, deltas, and lacustrine …

The origin and evolution of the Peace Vallis fan system that drains to the Curiosity landing area, Gale Crater, Mars

MC Palucis, WE Dietrich, AG Hayes… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The landing site for the Curiosity rover is located at the distal end of the Peace Vallis fan in
Gale Crater. Peace Vallis fan covers 80 km2 and is fed by a 730 km2 catchment, which …