T135 Up Close and Personal: Geology on Mars and Earth at the Handlens Scale

Tuesday, 30 October 2007
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Presentations

• 8:00 AM
  MARS UP CLOSE, AS SEEN BY THE MER MICROSCOPIC IMAGERS
  Ken Herkenhoff, US Geological Survey, Flagstaff, AZ and Science Team Athena, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA
  124327 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:20 AM
  THE MARS SCIENCE LABORATORY MARS HAND LENS IMAGER (MSL MAHLI)
  Michelle E. Minitti, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ and Kenneth Edgett, Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, CA and Mastcam/MAHLI/MARDI Team msl, Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, CA
  132356 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:40 AM
  DIFFERENTIAL DISSOLUTION AND RECRYSTALLIZATION: MICROSCALE CLUES TO PRECURSOR MINERAL SOLUBILITY
  Dawn Y. Sumner, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA
  128190 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:20 AM
  MICROSCALE OBSERVATIONS OF A POTENTIAL MARS ANALOG USING ROVER-INSPIRED METHODS
  R. Yingst, Planetary Science Institute, Brunswick, ME and Rachel Lentz, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, HI and Mariek Schmidt, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, DC
  125335 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:35 AM
  SCALE OF LAMINATION IN SEDIMENTARY ROCKS AS A GUIDE TO DEPOSITIONAL PROCESS ON MARS
  Daniel Stolper, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA and Marlene Kennedy, Stanford University, Stanford, CA and John Grotzinger, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
  132427 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:50 AM
  HAND-LENS SCALE TEXTURAL FEATURES PRODUCED BY AOELIAN EROSION OF MUDSTONES
  TreVor Von Howald, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN and Juergen Schieber, Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN
  128687 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:05 AM
  HAND-LENS SCALE SEDIMENTARY AND TEXTURAL FEATURES IN MUDSTONES AND THEIR ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS
  Zalmai Yawar, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN and Juergen Schieber, Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN
  128710 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:20 AM
  POLYGONAL CRACK SYSTEMS IN THE JURASSIC NAVAJO SANDSTONE: A WEATHERING ANALOG TO MARS
  Marjorie Chan, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT and Adolph Yonkee, Department of Earth and Environmental 1415 Edvalson St, Ogden, UT and Richard Ford, Weber State University, Ogden, UT and Winston M. Seiler, Univ of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT and Dennis I. Netoff, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX
  126104 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:35 AM
  MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES DUE TO EPSOMITE HYDRATION/DEHYDRATION REACTIONS IN SIMULATED EVAPORITES AT THE HAND-LENS SCALE - IMPLICATIONS FOR MARTIAN SEDIMENTS
  Laura A. Podratz, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN and Juergen Schieber, Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN and David Bish, Indiana University, Molecular Structure Center, Bloomington, IN
  126554 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:50 AM
  NOW YOU SEE IT – NOW YOU DON'T: COMPARING TEXTURAL DETAILS VISIBLE WITH THE HAND LENS IMAGERS OF THE MER ROVERS AND MARS SCIENCE LAB
  Juergen Schieber, Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN
  128744 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:05 AM
  MICROTEXTURES FORMED DURING ACID-SULFATE WEATHERING OF BASALTIC TEPHRA: RESULTS OF A FIELD AND LABORATORY-BASED STUDY
  Deidre LaClair, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY and Jack Farmer, Arizona State Univ, Tempe, AZ and Science Team Athena, Binghamton, NY
  129868 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:20 AM
  FIELD AND HANDLENS GEOLOGY AT LONAR CRATER, INDIA: DISTINGUISHING SMALL SCALE FEATURES OF IMPACT FROM THOSE OF BASALTIC VOLCANISM AND IMPLICATIONS FOR MARS LANDERS/ROVERS
  Shawn P. Wright, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Phil Christensen, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
  127368 (Technical Sessions)