P41C:
Present-Day Landscape Evolution on Mars I Posters

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Session ID#: 23844

Session Description:
Long-lived robotic missions have documented many active surface processes on Mars, including slope, impact, aeolian, and polar processes. These data are now producing insights into landscape evolution over longer timescales. Examples include formation of complex gullied slopes, carbon-dioxide-driven erosion of south polar terrains (including “spiders”), dune field evolution and implications for erosion of layered sediments, steep polar scarps with seasonal avalanches, and new impact events causing dust avalanches. Of special interest due to the possible role of water are recurring slope lineae (RSL), with characteristic associated morphologies such as small gullies or channels, sandy fans, and slumps. There are also better constraints on the rates of other processes, such as ice sublimation and glacial flow in the middle latitudes and tectonic activity. Rovers and landers provide important in situ measurements supporting orbital monitoring. We invite submissions documenting active surface change or assessing current landscape evolution on longer timescales.
Primary Convener:  Alfred S McEwen, University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, United States
Conveners:  Ganna Portyankina, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States and Colin M Dundas, USGS Astrogeology Science Center, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
Chairs:  Colin M Dundas, U. S. Geological Survey, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, Alfred S McEwen, University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, United States and Ganna Portyankina, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Alfred S McEwen, University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
Index Terms:

5415 Erosion and weathering [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
5422 Ices [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
5499 General or miscellaneous [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
6225 Mars [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Quantifying Cyclic Thermal Stresses Due to Solar Exposure in Rock Fragments in Gale Crater, Mars (291053)
Bernard Hallet, University of Washington, Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States, Peter Mackenzie-Helnwein, Hanover, NH, United States and Ronald S Sletten, University of Washington, Quaternary Research Center, Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States
Mapping of Boulder Ejecta around Late Amazonian Impact Craters on Mars (208687)
Don Hood, Baylor University, Geology and Geophysics, Waco, LA, United States, Suniti Karunatillake, Louisiana State University, Planetary Science Lab, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Baton Rouge, LA, United States and Caleb Fassett, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
Estimating the Grain Size Distribution of Mars based on Fragmentation Theory and Observations (263887)
Constantinos Charalambous, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, William T Pike, Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom and Matt Golombek, JPL/NASA/Caltech, BOISE, United States
Investigating the Formation of Mars Recurring Slope Lineae through Laboratory Experiments (229012)
David Cantillo1, Charles Hibbitts1, Benjamin R Wing1, Amit Mushkin2, Karen Stockstill-Cahill3 and Christina E Viviano4, (1)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel, (3)JHU-APL, Laurel, MD, United States, (4)Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Do Recurring Slope Lineae (RSL) Shape their Local Landscapes? (257065)
Alfred S McEwen, University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, United States, Colin M Dundas, U. S. Geological Survey, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, Matthew Chojnacki, University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, AZ, United States and Lujendra Ojha, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States
Efflorescence of Magnesium Perchlorate by Contact with Mineral Dust Particles (282212)
Shuichi Ushijima, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Margaret A Tolbert, University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Chemistry and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States and Raina V Gough, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
Relationship between dune crestline orientation and sediment availability, Olympia Undae, Mars (250235)
Laura Fernandez, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, Antoine Lucas, Université de Paris Cité, Institut de physique du globe de paris, CNRS, Paris, France, Sebastien Rodriguez, AIM - CEA/CNRS/Uni. P7, Gif/Yvette, France, Xin GAO, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, DFG, Paris, France, Aymeric Spiga, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique UPMC, Paris, France and Clement Narteau, IPGP, Paris, France
Fluvio geomorphic set-up of Noctis Fossae in Noctis Labyrinthus of Syria-Planum Provenance, Mars (271598)
Anil ASARAM Chavan, Kachchh University, Department of Earth and Env. Science, Bhuj, India and Subhash Bhandari, Kachchh University, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Bhuj, India

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