Models of Formation and Activity of Spring Mounds in the Mechertate-Chrita-Sidi El Hani System, Eastern Tunisia: Implications for the Habitability of Mars

Models of Formation and Activity of Spring Mounds in the Mechertate-Chrita-Sidi El Hani System, Eastern Tunisia: Implications for the Habitability of Mars

Spring mounds on Earth and on Mars could represent optimal niches of life development. If life ever occurred on Mars, ancient spring deposits would be excellent localities to search for morphological or chemical remnants of an ancient biosphere. In this work, we investigate models of formation and a...

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Main Authors: Elhoucine Essefi, Goro Komatsu, Alberto G. Fairén, Marjorie A. Chan, Chokri Yaich
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2014-08-01
Series:Life
Subjects:
Mechertate-Chrita-Sidi El Hani system
Mars habitability
terrestrial analogs
groundwater upwelling
seepage
tectonic model
hydraulic model
fault spring mounds
artesian spring mounds
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/4/3/386

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