Megashears and hydrothermalism at the Martian crustal dichotomy in Valles Marineris

Brittle-ductile deformation of hydrothermally altered mafic basement rocks on Mars may pin-point the location of base and rare metals and constrain Mars’ earliest crustal evolution, according to structural, spectral and geomagnetic mapping

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Joanna Gurgurewicz, Daniel Mège, Frédéric Schmidt, Sylvain Douté, Benoit Langlais
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-11-01
Series:Communications Earth & Environment
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00612-5