Fracture-controlled paleo-fluid flow in Candor Chasma, Mars.

نویسندگان

  • Chris H Okubo
  • Alfred S McEwen
چکیده

Color observations from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveal zones of localized fluid alteration (cementation and bleaching) along joints within layered deposits in western Candor Chasma, Mars. This fluid alteration occurred within the subsurface in the geologic past and has been exposed at the surface through subsequent erosion. These findings demonstrate that fluid flow along fractures was a mechanism by which subsurface fluids migrated through these layered deposits. Fractured layered deposits are thus promising sites for investigating the geologic history of water on Mars.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Science

دوره 315 5814  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2007