Fluorine in the Pahrump outcrop, Gale Crater: Implications for fluid circulation and alteration
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CIRCULATION AND ALTERATION O. Forni, M. Nachon, N. Mangold, D. L. Blaney, R.C. Wiens, S. M. Clegg, P.-Y. Meslin, O. Gasnault, S. Maurice, A. Cousin, J. Frydenvand, S. Schwenzer, J. L. Eigenbrode Institut de Recherches en Astrophysique et Planétologie, Toulouse, France, LPGN, Nantes, France, JPL, Pasadena, USA, LANL, Los Alamos, USA, The Open University, UK, NASA GSFC, USA ; [[email protected]]
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