Reconstructing Past Depositional and Diagenetic Processes through Quantitative Stratigraphic Analysis of the Martian Sedimentary Rock Record

• Main Author: Stack, Kathryn Marie Morgan
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: California Institute of Technology 2015
• Subjects: Mars Sedimentology and Stratigraphy; Spectroscopy; Mars; HiRISE; Mars Science Laboratory; Geology; FOS Earth and related environmental sciences; Yellowknife; Yellowknife Bay
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.7907/z9fn144m; https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:12042014-212249920

High-resolution orbital and in situ observations acquired of the Martian surface during the past two decades provide the opportunity to study the rock record of Mars at an unprecedented level of detail. This dissertation consists of four studies whose common goal is to establish new standards for th...