Carbonate Cements from the Sverrefjell and Sigurdfjell Volcanoes, Svalbard Norway: Analogs for Martian Carbonates
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SVALBARD NORWAY: ANALOGS FOR MARTIAN CARBONATES. D.F. Blake, A.H. Treiman, R. Morris, D. Bish, H.E.F Amundsen, A. Steele and the AMASE team. MS 239-4, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035 USA, [email protected]; Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX; Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX; Department of Geological Sciences, Indiana University; Earth and Planetary Explorations Services, Oslo, Norway; Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington.
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