P41E:
The Nature of Soil Across Earth and Mars I Posters

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Session ID#: 26778

Session Description:
Soil science is a mature field on Earth. However, it remains an emerging discipline elsewhere, despite ad-hoc use of pedological terms in planetary literature. Furthermore, soils at extreme climate locales on Earth can provide geochemical analogs to unconsolidated sediment on Mars. Human explorers will invariably encounter martian soil, also as the most accessible in situ resource. Analyses of soil processes on Mars at in situ and regional scales highlight the need for a consistent system of understanding extraterrestrial soil. This includes assessing the extent to which terrestrial soil processes may also arise on planetary surfaces. We welcome examining these topics to take us forward in the exploration of soil as a key repository of geologic process at the interface between planetary crusts and atmospheres. We also welcome abstracts examining how soil archives the record of weathering, atmospheric processes, and volcanic exhalations over geologic time.
Primary Convener:  Suniti Karunatillake, Louisiana State University, Planetary Science Lab, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
Conveners:  James J Wray, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States, Agnes Cousin, Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (IRAP), Toulouse, France and Tara Nicole Jonell, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
Chairs:  Agnes Cousin, Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (IRAP), Toulouse, France, James J Wray, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States, Suniti Karunatillake, Louisiana State University, Planetary Science Lab, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Baton Rouge, LA, United States and Tara Nicole Jonell, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Tara Nicole Jonell, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

1094 Instruments and techniques [GEOCHEMISTRY]
5415 Erosion and weathering [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
5470 Surface materials and properties [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
6225 Mars [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Comparisons of Unconsolidated Sediments Analyzed by APXS (MSL-Curiosity) within Gale Crater, Mars: Soils, Sands of the Barchan and Linear Dunes of the Active Bagnold Dune Field, and Ripple-field Sands. (279257)
Catherine O'Connell-Cooper1, Lucy M Thompson1, John G Spray1, Ralf Gellert2, Nick I Boyd2 and Elstan Desouza2, (1)University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada, (2)University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
Planning for the Collection and Analysis of Samples of Martian Granular Materials Potentially to be Returned by Mars Sample Return (252283)
Brandi L Carrier and David W Beaty, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States

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