Constraining the Texture and Composition of Pore-Filling Cements at Gale Crater, Mars

• Main Authors: Rampe, E. B., Vaniman, D. T., McLennan, S. M., Blaney, D. L., Siebach, K. L., Ming, D. W., Kah, L. C., Hurowitz, J. A., Grotzinger, J. P.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Lunar and Planetary Science and Exploration; Chemistry and Materials (General); Yellowknife; Yellowknife Bay
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20150002843

The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover Curiosity has encountered a wide variety of sedimentary rocks deposited in fluvio-lacuestrine sequences at the base of Gale Crater. The presence of sedimentary rocks requires that initial sediments underwent diagenesis and were lithified. Lithification involve...