Secondary minerals from salt caves in the Atacama Desert (Chile): a hyperarid and hypersaline environment with potential analogies to the Martian subsurface

• Published in: International Journal of Speleology
• Other Authors: 100022 - Dipartimento di Scienze della terra, dell'ambiente e della vita, 557
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Società Speleologica Italiana 2019
• Subjects: cave minerals; atacama; martian; Sanna; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11567/947662; https://doi.org/10.5038/1827-806X.46.1.2094

open 7 Over the past 15 years several expeditions by French, American and especially Italian cavers have unveiled over 50 caves in the Cordillera de la Sal (Atacama Desert, Northern Chile). Many of these caves contain a variety of speleothems and minerals, some of which have rarely been observed wit...