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A Lacustrine Paleoenvironment Recorded at Vera Rubin Ridge, Gale Crater: Overview of the Sedimentology and Stratigraphy Observed by the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover

scholarly article by Lauren A. Edgar et al published March 2020 in Journal of geophysical research. Planets

A Rock Record of Complex Aeolian Bedforms in a Hesperian Desert Landscape: The Stimson Formation as Exposed in the Murray Buttes, Gale Crater, Mars

scientific article

A lacustrine paleoenvironment recorded at Vera Rubin ridge, Gale crater: Overview of the sedimentology and stratigraphy observed by the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover

preprint

Ancient Winds, Waves, and Atmosphere in Gale Crater, Mars, Inferred From Sedimentary Structures and Wave Modeling

scientific article published in April 2022

Archean Synrift and Stable-Shelf Sedimentary Successions

book chapter

Braided Fluvial to Marine Transition: The Basal Lower Cambrian Wood Canyon Formation, Southern Marble Mountains, Mojave Desert, California

Candidate Desiccation Cracks in the Upper Murray Formation, Gale Crater, Mars

scientific article published in 2017

Characterisation of early Archaean chemical sediments by trace element signatures

scientific article published in May 2004

Chemical alteration of fine-grained sedimentary rocks at Gale crater

article by Nicolas Mangold et al published March 2019 in Icarus

Deformation features and critical field relationships of early Archaean rocks, Akilia, southwest Greenland

scientific article published in October 2003

Depositional setting and paleogeographic implications of earth's oldest supracrustal rocks, the >3.7Ga Isua Greenstone belt, West Greenland

scholarly article by Christopher M. Fedo et al published June 2001 in Sedimentary Geology

Desiccation cracks provide evidence of lake drying on Mars, Sutton Island member, Murray formation, Gale Crater

article

Desiccation cracks provide evidence of lake drying on Mars, Sutton Island member, Murray formation, Gale crater: REPLY

article

Detrital Zircon Analysis of the Sedimentary Record

scholarly article

Development of a mixed seawater-hydrothermal fluid geochemical signature during alteration of volcanic rocks in the Archean (∼2.7 Ga) Abitibi Greenstone Belt, Canada

scientific article published in April 2018

Does a Heavy Fe-Isotope Composition of Akilia Quartz-Amphibole-Pyroxene Rocks Necessitate a BIF Origin?

scientific article published in October 2015

Ensialic origin for the Ngezi Group, Belingwe greenstone belt, Zimbabwe

scholarly article

Ensialic origin for the Ngezi Group, Belingwe greenstone belt, Zimbabwe: Comment and Reply

scholarly article by T. M. Kusky et al published 1994 in Geology

Evaluating the geochemistry and paired silicon and oxygen isotope record of quartz in siliceous rocks from the ~3 Ga Buhwa Greenstone Belt, Zimbabwe, a critical link to deciphering the Archean silica cycle

scientific article published on 9 November 2020

Evidence for Multiple Diagenetic Episodes in Ancient Fluvial-Lacustrine Sedimentary Rocks in Gale Crater, Mars

scientific article published on 13 August 2020

Evidence for a Diagenetic Origin of Vera Rubin Ridge, Gale Crater, Mars: Summary and Synthesis of Curiosity's Exploration Campaign

Scientific article published in July 2020

Extending the western North American Proterozoic and Paleozoic continental crust through the Mojave Desert: Comment and Reply

scholarly article

Extraformational sediment recycling on Mars

scientific article published in December 2020

Geochemistry of shales from the Archean (~3.0 Ga) Buhwa Greenstone Belt, Zimbabwe: Implications for provenance and source-area weathering

scientific article published in May 1996

Geologic Framework of Middle Tertiary Strata, Northern Sacramento Mountains, Southeastern Calif.

scientific article published in 1993

Geologic history of the Archean Buhwa Greenstone Belt and surrounding granite–gneiss terrane, Zimbabwe, with implications for the evolution of the Limpopo Belt

scientific article published in November 1995

Geological constraints on detecting the earliest life on Earth: a perspective from the Early Archaean (older than 3.7 Gyr) of southwest Greenland

scientific article (publication date: 29 June 2006)

Grain Size Variations in the Murray Formation: Stratigraphic Evidence for Changing Depositional Environments in Gale Crater, Mars

Grain size and hydrodynamic sorting controls on the composition of basaltic sediments: Implications for interpreting martian soils

scientific article published in August 2015

Incongruity of Detrital Zircon Ages of Granitic Bedrock and Its Derived Alluvium: An Example from the Stepladder Mountains, Southeastern California

scholarly article

Integrated Pb- and S-isotope investigation of sulphide minerals from the early Archaean of southwest Greenland

scholarly article

Metasomatic origin of quartz-pyroxene rock, Akilia, Greenland, and implications for Earth's earliest life

scientific article (publication date: 24 May 2002)

Micro-scale silicon isotope heterogeneity observed in hydrothermal quartz precipitates from the >3.7 Ga Isua Greenstone Belt, SW Greenland

scientific article published on 27 December 2015

Microscale heterogeneity of Fe isotopes in >3.71 Ga banded iron formation from the Isua Greenstone Belt, southwest Greenland

scholarly article

Mineralogy and geochemistry of sedimentary rocks and eolian sediments in Gale crater, Mars: A review after six Earth years of exploration with Curiosity

scholarly article by Elizabeth B. Rampe et al published May 2020 in Geochemistry

New evidence favouring an endogenic origin for supposed impact breccias in Huronian (Paleoproterozoic) sedimentary rocks

scientific article published in August 2004

Origin and Significance of Archean Quartzose Rocks at Akilia, Greenland

scientific article published in November 2002

Origin of basaltic soils at Gusev crater, Mars, by aeolian modification of impact-generated sediment

scholarly article

Paleoclimatic control on the composition of the Paleoproterozoic Serpent Formation, Huronian Supergroup, Canada: a greenhouse to icehouse transition

article

Paleoproterozoic Huronian basin: product of a Wilson cycle punctuated by glaciations and a meteorite impact

scientific article published in June 2001

Paleoproterozoic Mojave province in northwestern Mexico? Isotopic and U-Pb zircon geochronologic studies of Precambrian and Cambrian crystalline and sedimentary rocks, Caborca, Sonora

scientific article published in 2005

Provenance ages and alteration histories of shales from the Middle Archean Buhwa greenstone belt, Zimbabwe: Nd and Pb isotopic evidence

scientific article published in January 2004

Provenance and paleoweathering reconstruction of the Neoproterozoic Johnnie Formation, southeastern California

scholarly article

Provenance of the Neoproterozoic Johnnie Formation and Stirling Quartzite, southeastern California, determined by detrital zircon geochronology and Nd isotope geochemistry

scientific article published in June 2012

Quartz and Feldspar Stability, Steady and Non‐Steady‐State Weathering, and Petrogenesis of Siliciclastic Sands and Muds

scientific article published in March 1997

Questioning the evidence for Earth's earliest life—Akilia revisited

article

Reassessment of the Basal Sauk Supersequence Boundary across the Laurentian Craton-Margin Hinge Zone, Southeastern California

scientific article published in November 2011

Regional Structural Orientation of the Mount Sharp Group Revealed by In Situ Dip Measurements and Stratigraphic Correlations on the Vera Rubin Ridge

scientific article

Sedimentology and Stratigraphy of the Murray Formation, Gale Crater, Mars

scientific article published in 2018

Sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy of Neoproterozoic and Cambrian units across a craton-margin hinge zone, southeastern California, and implications for the early evolution of the Cordilleran margin

scientific article published in June 2001

Setting and origin for problematic rocks from the >3.7 Ga Isua Greenstone Belt, southern west Greenland: Earth’s oldest coarse clastic sediments

scientific article published in May 2000

Soil mineralogy at the Mars Exploration Rover landing sites: An assessment of the competing roles of physical sorting and chemical weathering

scholarly article

Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the Murray Formation, as observed using the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover

scientific article published in 2018

Sudbury-type breccias in the Huronian Gowganda Formation near Whitefish Falls, Ontario: products of diabase intrusion into incompletely consolidated sediments?

scientific article published in 1999

Terrestrial analogs in the Mojave Desert of the southwestern United States for volcanic, sedimentary, and tectonic processes on other planets

Textural, geochemical, and isotopic data from silicified rocks and associated chemical sedimentary rocks in the ~ 2.7 Ga Abitibi greenstone belt, Canada: Insight into the role of silicification

scientific article published in December 2020

The Akilia Controversy: field, structural and geochronological evidence questions interpretations of >3.8 Ga life in SW Greenland

article

The Chemostratigraphy of the Murray Formation and Role of Diagenesis at Vera Rubin Ridge in Gale Crater, Mars, as Observed by the ChemCam Instrument

scientific article published in September 2020

Unraveling the effects of potassium metasomatism in sedimentary rocks and paleosols, with implications for paleoweathering conditions and provenance

scientific article published in 1995

Zircon U–Pb ages and Hf isotopic compositions indicate multiple sources for Grenvillian detrital zircon deposited in western Laurentia

scientific article published in December 2015