Yen, A. S.; Morris, Richard V.; Ming, D. W. (Douglas W.); Schwenzer, Susanne Petra; Sutter, B.; Vaniman, David; Treiman, Allan H.; Gellert, R.; Achilles, C. N.; Berger, J. A.; Blake, D. F.; Boyd, N. I.; Bristow, Thomas F.; Chipera, S. J.; Clark, Benton C.; Craig, Patricia I.; Downs, R. T.; Franz, H. B.; Gabriel, T.; McAdam, A. C.; Morrison, S. M.; O'Connell-Cooper, C. D.; Rampe, Elizabeth; Schmidt, Mariek; Thompson, Lucy; VanBommel, Scott J.; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7661-2626; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8073-2839; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9608-0759; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4080-4997
(American Geophysical Union, 2021-03-10)
Using data from Curiosity's instrument suite, we show that the tridymite‐bearing rocks exhibit similar chemical patterns with silicon‐rich alteration zones which crosscut the layered sediments. We infer that the tridymite ...