The Murray formation represents fine-grained sedimentary deposition in lacustrine environments within Gale crater, Mars. Both the overall thickness of and its broad uniformity character suggest potential for a long-lived, groundwater-supported lake system. Rock textures were imaged by Mars Hand Lens Imager camera at Pahrump Hills location, which lowermost formation. We analyze data from to refi...

Many people in sub-Saharan Africa have to rely on meager water resources within mudstones for their only water supply. Although mudstones have been extensively researched for their low permeability behavior, little research has been undertaken to examine their ability to provide sustainable water supplies. To investigate the factors controlling the occurrence of usable ground water in mudstone ...

The distribution of redox-sensitive metals in sediments is potentially a proxy for past ocean ventilation and productivity, but deconvolving these two major controls has proved difficult to date. Here we present a 740 kyr long record of trace element concentrations from an archived sediment core collected at ~15S on the western flank of the East Pacific Rise on 1.1 Ma old crust, and underlying ...

In one-dimensional (1D) early diagenetic models, bioirrigation is typically represented by a nonlocal mass transfer or bioirrigation coefficient, . Usually, all pore water species are assigned the same . Here, we show that this assumption can lead to significant errors in estimates of bioirrigation intensities. Using a simplified early diagenetic reaction network, we compute the 3D concentratio...

manganese ore deposits occurred in various types of syngenetic, diagenetic and epigenetic mineralization in association with radiolarian cherts in colored melange of neyriz ophiolite in abadeh tashk area, eastern fars province. microscopic study and xrd analyses show a simple mineralogy for manganese compounds in all types. psylomelane and braunite are the primary manganese compounds in syngene...