Geomorphology of Gale Crater, Rock on! Options

[ngunn]

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?


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[serpens]

We have to climb around another hundred metres of Murray formation mudstone and sixty metres or more above that to the hematite ridge. Nicolas Steno's principle of lateral continuity holds that this strata would have originally covered Curiosity's current position, requiring significant water influence over a long period of time. As an aside, the more I look at the hematite ridge the more I wonder whether it could be an inverted bed of what was a reasonably well oxidised stream.