Moderately to Poorly Welded Tuff, Bishop, California: Geophysical and Geological Characterization to Determine the Source of Radar Scattering
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Introduction: The National Research Council Decadal Study on Terrestrial Analogs to Mars recommended the Bishop Tuff, exposed in the Volcanic Tableland, Bishop, California (Fig. 1), as an analog [1] because some Martian volcanoes and the Stealth region of southwestern Tharsis are thought to be composed of pyroclastic deposits [2–4]. Recent data from the Spirit rover also suggest that the Columbia Hills in part may be of pyroclastic origin [5,6].
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