Characterization of the acidic cold seep emplaced jarositic Golden Deposit, NWT, Canada, as an analogue for jarosite deposition on Mars

• Published in: Icarus
• Main Authors: Battler, M.M., Osinski, G.R., Lim, D.S.S., Davila, A.F., Michel, F.A., Craig, M., Izawa, M.R.M., Leoni, L., Slater, G.F., Fairen, A.G., Preston, Louisa, Banerjee, N.R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2013
• Subjects: UCL/Birkbeck Centre for Planetary Sciences; Earth and Planetary Sciences; Canada; Norman Wells; Northwest Territories; Saline Lake; permafrost
• Online Access: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/15869/; https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/15869/1/1-s2.0-S0019103512001893-main.pdf__tid%3D48fa3b08-5ee7-11e6-91bd-00000aacb35e%26acdnat%3D1470825993_1dac8033a22911d6d72510bad3f0bb9f; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2012.05.015

Surficial deposits of the OH-bearing iron sulfate mineral jarosite have been observed in several places on Mars, such as Meridiani Planum and Mawrth Vallis. The specific depositional conditions and mechanisms are not known, but by comparing martian sites to analogous locations on Earth, the conditio...