Seasonal melting and the formation of sedimentary rocks on Mars, with predictions for the Gale Crater mound [PDF]
, 2012 A model for the formation and distribution of sedimentary rocks on Mars is proposed. The rate-limiting step is supply of liquid water from seasonal melting of snow or ice.
Agnor +251 more
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Worldwide distribution of continental rock lithology: Implications for the atmospheric/soil CO2 uptake by continental weathering and alkalinity river transport to the oceans [PDF]
, 2003 The silicate rock weathering followed by the formation of carbonate rocks in the ocean, transfers CO2 from the atmosphere to the lithosphere. This CO2 uptake plays a major role in the regulation of atmospheric CO2 concentrations at the geologic ...
Amiotte Suchet, Philippe +2 more
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A study of high-frequency strong ground motion from the San Fernando earthquake [PDF]
, 1975 This thesis describes an investigation of the attenuation of strong earthquake ground motion in the 0. 4 to 16 Hz frequency band during the M=6.4, February 9, 1971, San Fernando, California earthquake.
Berrill, John Beauchamp
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A new stylolite classification scheme to estimate compaction and local permeability variations [PDF]
, 2017 This study was carried out within the framework of DGMK (German Society for Petroleum and Coal Science and Technology) research project 718 “Mineral Vein Dynamics Modeling”, which is funded by the companies ExxonMobil Production Deutschland GmbH, GDF ...
Beaudoin, Nicolas +5 more
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Deformation and fluid flow in the Huab Basin and Etendeka Plateau, NW Namibia [PDF]
, 2016 The Lower Cretaceous Twyfelfontein sandstone formation in the Huab Basin in NW Namibia shows the effects of volcanic activity on a potential reservoir rock.
Chung, Peter +6 more
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The potassic sedimentary rocks in Gale Crater, Mars, as seen by ChemCam on board Curiosity [PDF]
, 2016 The Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity encountered potassium-rich clastic sedimentary rocks at two sites in Gale Crater, the waypoints Cooperstown and Kimberley.
Anderson, RB +29 more
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Provenance history of a Late Triassic-Jurassic Gondwana margin forearc basin, Murihiku Terrane, North Island, New Zealand: petrographic and geochemical constraints [PDF]
, 2004 The Murihiku Terrane in the North Island was a forearc basin adjacent to a volcanic arc along the eastern margin of Gondwana during the Mesozoic. The rocks that infill the basin are mainly volcaniclastic sandstones and mudstones, often turbiditic, with ...
Briggs, Roger M. +2 more
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Orbital frequencies in the carbonate sedimentary record: distorted by diagenesis? [PDF]
, 2004 The most important archive of Earth’s climate change through geologic history is the sedimentary rock record. Rhythmic sedimentary alternations are usually interpreted as a consequence of periodic variations in the orbital parameters of the Earth.
Bornholdt, Stefan +2 more
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Significance of sorting in sedimentary rocks [PDF]
Geological Society of America Bulletin, 1917 Dominant Considerations and the Question Raised The facts that the grains composing most sedimentary rocks show more or less sorting, that this sorting is not uniform, either in degree or kind, and that the rocks are known to have been laid down by various agents, naturally leads to the question: To what extent may it be possible to determine, from ...
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