Geologic Environment Characterizations and Numerical Modeling of Early Mars Climate Change into a Cold and Dry World
A special issue of Geosciences (ISSN 2076-3263).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2017)
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Approximately 3.8 billion years ago, Mars experienced its most dramatic climatic transition; it went from being an “Earth-like” planet with an active surface hydrosphere (thought to have connected vast rivers, lakes, seas and oceans) to a world dominated by extremely cold and dry desert environments, which have persisted until today.
Mechanisms leading to this episode of climate change remain one of the key mysteries in Mars geosciences. Here, we invite contributions, which—based on surface geologic analyses and/or the implementation of numerical models—would describe geologic environments and processes resulting from, and/or contributing to, the climatic transition.
Dr. Alexis Palmero Rodriguez
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Mars
- Climate change
- Surface hydrosphere
- Cryosphere
- Aquifers