Opportunity has investigated in detail rocks on the rim of the Noachian age Endeavour
crater, where orbital spectral reflectance signatures indicate the presence of Fe+ 3-rich …

The Sheepbed member of the Yellowknife Bay formation in Gale crater contains millimeter‐
scale nodules that represent an array of morphologies unlike those previously observed in …

Low resistivity pay (LRP) zones have been identified within many siliciclastic reservoirs
around the world, and have gained significant attention due to their ability to hold substantial …

Minerals are the building blocks of clastic sediments and play an important role with respect
to the physico-chemical properties of the sediment and the lithostratigraphy of sediments …

Ferruginous deposits are iron-rich sediments or sedimentary rocks found in various sizes,
shapes, and compositions within sedimentary strata in different depositional settings. This …

Extensive regions of yellow and white (“bleached”) sandstones within the terrestrial Jurassic
red bed deposits of the Colorado Plateau reflect widespread interaction with subsurface …

Abstract The Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover imaged diagenetic textural features in four
separate sedimentary units in its exploration of the 25‐m‐thick Shenandoah formation at …

Recovery of soft tissues and cells from fossil bones is becoming increasingly common, with
structures morphologically consistent with vertebrate osteocytes, blood vessels …

Concretions, preferentially cemented masses within sediments and sedimentary rocks, are
records of sediment diagenesis and tracers of pore water chemistry. For over a century …

There is an amazing array of concretions throughout the sedimentary record of Earth, and
now iron oxide examples (“blueberries”) recognized in several regions of Mars. Two …