Diagenetic groundwater models and the distribution of salts observed at Gale crater, Mars


William Rapin1, Bethany L Ehlmann2, John P Grotzinger1, Joel Hurowitz3, Woodward W Fischer4, Nancy H. Thomas1, Samuel M Clegg5, Roger C Wiens6, Marion Nachon7, Vivian Zheng Sun8 and Lucy M Thompson9, (1)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)California Institute of Technology, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Stony Brook University, Geosciences, Stony Brook, NY, United States, (4)California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, United States, (5)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (6)Space Science and Applications, Los Alamos, United States, (7)UC Davis Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA, United States, (8)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (9)University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada