Soil-Like Bodies on Mars

Targulian, V.O.; Mergelov, N.S.; Goryachkin, S.V.

Авторы: Targulian V.O., Mergelov N.S., Goryachkin S.V.
Журнал: Eurasian Soil Science
Том: 50
Номер: 2
Год издания: 2017
Издательство: Maik Nauka/Interperiodica Publishing
Местоположение издательства: Russian Federation
Первая страница: 185
Последняя страница: 197
DOI: 10.1134/S1064229317020120
Аннотация: Soils sensu stricto are absent on Mars; most probably, they have never been formed there, because, up to now, we have no evidence of the presence of life, either relict or recent, on this planet. Numerous references to “Martian soils” in scientific literature concern loose substrates rather than Dokuchaev’s soils. In this context, surface bodies on Mars can be described using the concept of planetary “shells”, or exons. Exons can be subdivided into sitons formed via in situ transformation of parent material, transons formed in the course of lateral transportation and deposition of substances, and transsitons formed by the combination of both in situ and lateral processes. Among Martian exons, transons predominate. They represent loose sediments of mainly eolian genesis related to extremely strong winds. Soil-like bodies (soloids) on Mars are represented by sitons and transsitons. These are abiotic formations having the profiles differentiated by the contents of iron oxides, soluble salts, and clay minerals and mainly formed in the presence of liquid water during the paleohumid eras of Mars evolution more than 2.5/3 billion years ago. True deep sitons (Martian weathering mantles) could only be formed under the impact of long-term weathering on stable surfaces during humid eras. Then, they were either buried by later deposited sediments, or eroded. Up to now, such objects have not been discovered on Mars
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