Geochemical Processes Driving the Rio Tinto Acidic Sedimentation: Insights into Sedimentary Sequences on Early Mars
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INTO SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCES ON EARLY MARS. D. C. Fernández-Remolar, O. Prieto-Ballesteros, S. M. Chemtob, R. V. Morris, D. Ming, A. K. Knoll, L. Hutchison, J. F. Mustard, R. Amils and R. Arvidson. Centro de Astrobiológica (INTA-CSIC), Ctra Ajalvir km 4, 28850 Torrejón de Ardoz, Spain, [email protected], Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130. Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058. Organismic and Evolutionary Department, University of Harvard. Dept. of Geological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912.
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تاریخ انتشار 2006