Analogs for Planetary Exploration
Field guide to exhumed paleochannels near Green River, Utah: Terrestrial analogs for sinuous ridges on Mars
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Published:December 01, 2011
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Rebecca M.E. Williams, Rossman P. Irwin, III, James R. Zimbelman, Thomas C. Chidsey, Jr., David E. Eby, 2011. "Field guide to exhumed paleochannels near Green River, Utah: Terrestrial analogs for sinuous ridges on Mars", Analogs for Planetary Exploration, W. Brent Garry, Jacob E. Bleacher
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Multiple cemented channel-fill deposits from the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous, once buried beneath 2400 m of sediment, are now exposed at the surface in arid east-central Utah due to erosion of the less resistant surrounding material. This field guide focuses on examples near the town of Green River where there is public access to several different types of exhumed paleochannels within a small geographic region. We describe the geologic setting of these landforms based on previous work, discuss the relevance to analogous sinuous ridges that are interpreted to be inverted paleochannels on Mars, and present a detailed road log with descriptive stops in Emery County, Utah.
- Brushy Basin Member
- Cedar Mountain Formation
- cementation
- Cretaceous
- diagenesis
- Emery County Utah
- exhumation
- field studies
- fluvial features
- Green River
- Jurassic
- landforms
- Lower Cretaceous
- Mars
- Mars Orbiter Camera
- meanders
- Mesozoic
- Morrison Formation
- paleochannels
- planets
- relief inversion
- road log
- Salt Wash Sandstone Member
- terrestrial analogs
- terrestrial planets
- United States
- Upper Jurassic
- Utah
- channel-fill
- sinuous ridges