Communications Earth & Environment (Nov 2022)

Chemical weathering over hundreds of millions of years of greenhouse conditions on Mars

  • Binlong Ye,
  • Joseph R. Michalski

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00602-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Multiple climatic events on Mars over a large range of geologic time, which peaked 3.7–3.8 billion years ago may have created warm, wet and anoxic conditions episodically, according to a compilation of over 200 Martian chemical weathering profiles.