Formation of beach deposits (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Formation of beach deposits

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Schematic showing how a series of beach deposits would have formed at the Zhurong landing site in the distant past on Mars (left) and how long-term physical and chemical weathering on the planet altered the properties of the rocks and minerals and buried the deposits.

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Hai Liu, Guangzhou University, China

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