Martian Paleosols?
Earth-like soils on Mars? Ancient fossilized soils potentially
found deep inside impact crater suggest microbial life,
University of Oregon, ScienceDaily, July 17, 2014
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/07/140717125043.htm
Oregon geologist says Curiosity's images show Earth-like
soils on Mars. University of Oregon, News Release, July 17, 2014
http://uonews.uoregon.edu/archive/news-release/2014/7/oregon-geologist-says-curiositys-images-show-earth-soils-mars
Gregory Retallack
http://blogs.uoregon.edu/gregr/
http://blogs.uoregon.edu/gregr/detailed-webpage/
http://blogs.uoregon.edu/gregr/detailed-webpage/publications/
The paper is:
Retallack, G. J., 2014, Paleosols and paleoenvironments
of early Mars. Geology, 2014; DOI: 10.1130/G35912.1
http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/early/2014/07/14/G35912.1
Yours,
Paul H.