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The ‘Coal Measures’ of Grand Ledge, Michigan, USA Available to Purchase
Abstract The best-exposed natural bedrock outcrops in Michigan's southern peninsula are Upper Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) sandstone ledges underlain by silts, clays, and coals in classic midcontinent ‘cyclothem’ stratigraphy, exposed along the Grand River in the city of Grand Ledge. Native Americans used the underclay in pottery; later commercial mining was the basis for clay-products factories. In the 1800s, the ledges provided a picturesque setting for a resort economy. Among the beneficiaries of repurposed quarries (now parks) are generations of Michigan geoscience students. A trip to Grand Ledge is often the first geology field experience for many students and plays an important role in the professional development of practising geoscientists and geoscience educators in Michigan. After an announcement of plans to expand the city's water treatment plant, adjacent to the cyclothem exposure, geologists from academia, government, and industry united to support preservation of the outcrops. City officials, previously unaware of the geoheritage value of the rocks exposed in their parks, are willing to work with geoscientists to preserve the site. This experience underscored the importance of documenting the geoheritage of the Grand Ledge area and establishing relationships with those who have oversight of these ‘greatest outcrops’ to ensure their preservation for future generations.
Crystallography on Mars: Curiosity's Bragging right Open Access
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Etch-pit size, dissolution rate, and time in the experimental dissolution of olivine: Implications for estimating olivine lifetime at the surface of Mars Available to Purchase
STOICHIOMETRIC REACTIONS DESCRIBING SERPENTINIZATION OF ANHYDROUS PRIMARY SILICATES: A CRITICAL APPRAISAL, WITH APPLICATION TO AQUEOUS ALTERATION OF CHONDRULE SILICATES IN CM CARBONACEOUS CHONDRITES Available to Purchase
Weathering of almandine garnet: influence of secondary minerals on the rate-determining step, and implications for regolith-scale al mobilization Available to Purchase
Aqueous Alteration in Martian Meteorites: Comparing Mineral Relations in Igneous-Rock Weathering of Martian Meteorites and in the Sedimentary Cycle of Mars Available to Purchase
ABSTRACT Many of the minerals observed or inferred to occur in the sediments and sedimentary rocks of Mars, from a variety of Mars-mission spacecraft data, also occur in Martian meteorites. Even Martian meteorites recovered after some exposure to terrestrial weathering can preserve preterrestrial evaporite minerals and useful information about aqueous alteration on Mars, but the textures and textural contexts of such minerals must be examined carefully to distinguish preterrestrial evaporite minerals from occurrences of similar minerals redistributed or formed by terrestrial processes. Textural analysis using terrestrial microscopy provides strong and compelling evidence for preterrestrial aqueous alteration products in a number of Martian meteorites. Occurrences of corroded primary rock-forming minerals and alteration products in meteorites from Mars cover a range of ages of mineral–water interaction, from ca. 3.9 Ga (approximately mid-Noachian), through one or more episodes after ca. 1.3 Ga (approximately mid–late Amazonian), through the last half billion years (late Amazonian alteration in young shergottites), to quite recent. These occurrences record broadly similar aqueous corrosion processes and formation of soluble weathering products over a broad range of times in the paleoenvironmental history of the surface of Mars. Many of the same minerals (smectite-group clay minerals, Ca-sulfates, Mg-sulfates, and the K-Fe–sulfate jarosite) have been identified both in the Martian meteorites and from remote sensing of the Martian surface. This suggests that both kinds of samples—Martian meteorites and Mars’ surface rocks, regolith, and soils—were altered under broadly similar conditions. Temporarily and locally occurring but likely stagnant aqueous solutions reacted quickly with basaltic/mafic/ultramafic minerals at low water–rock ratios. Solutes released by primary mineral weathering precipitated locally on Mars as cation-rich clays and evaporite minerals, rather than being leached away, as on Earth. The main secondary host minerals for Fe differ between Martian meteorites and Mars’ surface materials. In Martian meteorites, sideritic–ankeritic carbonate is the predominant secondary host mineral for Fe, whereas in Mars’ surface materials, ferric oxides and ferric sulfates are the predominant secondary host minerals for Fe. Differences in the initial compositions of the altering solutions are implied, with carbonate/bicarbonate dominating in the solutions that altered Martian meteorites, and sulfate dominating the solutions that altered most Mars’surface materials. During impact on and ejection from Mars, Martian meteorites may have been exhumed from depths sufficient to have isolated them from large quantities of Mars’surface solutions. Pre-ejection weathering of the basaltic rocks occurred in grain-boundary fracture microenvironments at high pH values in aqueous solutions buffered by reactions with basalt minerals.