Geomorphology of Gale Crater, Rock on! |
Geomorphology of Gale Crater, Rock on! |
Sep 26 2012, 10:22 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
I'd like a discussion thread about the geology detatched from the time limits of current MSL threads. We had a 'Geomorphology of Cape York' thread that attracted a lot of interesting posts. How about 'Geomorphology of Gale Crater'? I have one or two ideas but many more questions, and I'd like to post them in a longer-running thread away from the day to day imaging discussion. Any other takers?
For starters, does anybody have a contour map of this place like the one at Meridiani with 5m intervals? ADMIN: You have your wishes fulfilled on UMSF (sometimes) |
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Oct 9 2012, 01:23 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 59 Joined: 12-March 10 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 5262 |
Thanks Pete, very helpful indeed. One of the things I keep wondering about is the much bigger inflow channel (and alluvial fan?) coming in from the southwest crater rim. These maps show there is a very big "sink" at the end of the "fan" (roughly due west of the peak of Sharp), much bigger than the one at Glenelg. It would seem that deposits from that channel would not come into play at Glenelg by my reading, but I'm not sure of that. If the SW channel is the older one, I guess it's possible that it's deposits did reach Glenelg.
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