Evidence for subaqueously resedimented sulphate evaporites on Mars

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This article documents the clastic nature of sulphate evaporite beds in the Tithonium Chasma located in the Valles Marineris region of Mars. These beds form a stratified succession characterised by very thick interbedded channel-fill breccia bodies. We infer that the bouldery channel-fills were deposited by voluminous mass-flow processes occurring in a relatively deep subaqueous environment. The redeposition of the coarse-grained evaporite would have responded to phases of high denudation rates in rapidly uplifting hinterlands. Tectonic activity also caused the diapiric uprise and exhumation of evaporite diapirs within the Valles Marineris chasmata, where the apparently young and well development karstic landforms probably formed during the late Amazonian age. These new data strongly suggest the deposition of both primary and resedimented evaporites in a marginal basin area, which effectively restricted ocean access through the proposed “proto-Valles Marineris Strait”. The associated ocean may be the “Ocean Borealis” of Late Noachian-Early Hesperian age.

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