Carbonates and Other Salts in the Atacama Desert and on Mars, and the Implications for the Role of Life in Carbonate Formation
The scarcity of carbonate on Mars has been difficult to reconcile with the morphologic evidence for a wet epoch in Martian history, and has weakened early interpretations of a water-rich Noachian. Limited soil carbonate from pre-Silurian Earth has created a similar conundrum, and in both instances t...
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The University of Arizona.
2015
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/556965 |