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1st Edition - May 23, 2021
Editors: Richard Soare, Susan Conway, Jean-Pierre Williams, Dorothy Oehler
Mars Geological Enigmas: From the Late Noachian Epoch to the Present Day presents outstanding questions on the geology of Mars and divergent viewpoints based on varying… Read more
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Introduction
Richard J. Soare, Susan J. Conway, Jean-Pierre Williams, Dorothy Oehler
Prologue - Why Mars?
James B. Garvin
Chapter 1. Current enigmas identified by the Curiosity rover at the Gale crater
Abigail A. Fraeman
Node I
What sourced the enormous flows and volumes that formed the outflow channels and highland-margin contacts of ancient Mars?
Chapter 2. The fluvial interpretation of outflow channels on Mars: landforms, processes and paleoenvironmental implications
Colman J. Gallagher, Rickbir Bahia
Chapter 3. Was there an early Mars ocean?
Timothy J. Parker, Bruce G. Bills
Chapter 4. Dry megafloods on Mars: formation of the outflow channels by voluminous effusions of low viscosity lava
David Leverington
Node II
Can impact craters be used to derive reliable surface ages on Mars?
Chapter 5. Challenges in crater chronology arising from the Jezero impact crater
Lior Rubinenko, Tyler M. Powell, Jean-Pierre Williams
Chapter 6. The role of secondary craters on Martian crater chronology
Jean-Pierre Williams, Tyler M. Powell
Node III
The perplexing story of methane on Mars
Chapter 7. Methane on Mars: subsurface sourcing and conflicting atmospheric measurements
Dorothy Oehler, Giuseppe Etiope
Chapter 8. A review of the meteor shower hypothesis for methane on Mars
Marc Fries
Node IV
Does water flow on Martian slopes?
Chapter 9. The possible role of water in recent surface-processes on Mars
Susan J. Conway, David Stillman
Chapter 10. Dry formation of recent Martian slope-features
Colin Dundas
Node V
Earth analogues for Mars - a plethora of choice!
Chapter 11. The McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica: a geological, environmental and ecological analog to the Martian surfac
Mark Salvatore, Joe Levy
Chapter 12. The Atacama Desert: a window into late Mars surface habitability
Alfonso Davila, Jocelyne DiRuggerio, Kimberly Warren-Rhodes
Chapter 13. Ancient life in diverse habitats from the Pilbara Craton and Mount Bruce Supergroup, western Australia: analogues for early Mars?
Martin J. Van Kranendonk, Raphael Baumgartner, Tomaso Bonognali, Kenichiro Sugitani, Malcolm Walter
Node VI
The freeze-thaw cycling of water at/near the Martian surface: present, past and possible?
Chapter 14. Pingo-like mounds and possible periglaciation/glaciation at/adjacent to the Moreux impact crater, Mars
Richard J. Soare, Jean-Pierre Williams, Susan J. Conway, M.Ramy El-Maarry
Chapter 15. Thermokarst-like depressions on Mars: age constraints on ice degradation in Utopia Planitia
Donna Viola
Node VII
Hemispheres together: towards understanding the Mars dichotomy
Chapter 16. Forging the Mars crustal-dichotomy: the giant impact hypothesis
Robert I. Citron
Chapter 17. Endogenic origin of the Martian hemispheric dichotomy?
James Roberts
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