GSA Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington, USA - 2017

Session No. 244
Tuesday, 24 October 2017: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Tahoma 1 (The Conference Center)

T206. Geomorphology and Landscape Evolution of Mars: The G.K. Gilbert Award Session I

GSA Planetary Geology Division
James J. Wray, Danielle Wyrick and Sharon Wilson Purdy, Advocates
 
1:30 PM
Introductory Remarks
1:35 PM
GSA PLANETARY GEOLOGY DIVISION G.K. GILBERT LECTURE: IMPACT CRATERS AS A TOOL FOR MEASURING THE AMOUNT AND PROCESSES OF DEGRADATION ON MARS
GRANT, John A. and WILSON, Sharon A., Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Independence Ave at 6th St, SW, Washington, DC 20560, grantj@si.edu
1:50 PM
MISSING MARS: CLUES FROM RELICT CRATERS (Invited Presentation)
SCHULTZ, Peter H., Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Science, Brown University, P.O. Box 1846, Providence, RI 02912, peter_schultz@brown.edu
2:10 PM
DEGRADATION OF SMALL IMPACT CRATERS: EROSION RATES AND MARS CLIMATE
GOLOMBEK, M.P.1, WARNER, N.H.2, GANTI, Vamsi3 and SWEENEY, Julianne2, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, (2)Department of Geological Sciences, SUNY Geneseo, 1 College Circle, Geneseo, NY 14454, (3)Department of Earth Science & Engineering, Imperial College, London, mgolombek@jpl.nasa.gov
2:30 PM
ORBITAL AND ROVER-BASED EXPLORATION OF PERSEVERANCE VALLEY, ENDEAVOUR CRATER, MARS (Invited Presentation)
ARVIDSON, Raymond E., Earth & Planetary Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, 1 Brookings Drive, Saint Louis, MO 63130, arvidson@wunder.wustl.edu
Handouts
  • gsa_arvidson_244_4.pdf (1.8 MB)
  • 2:50 PM
    GEOMORPHOLOGY OF THE “SPILLWAY” AREA AT THE HEAD OF PERSEVERANCE VALLEY, ENDEAVOUR CRATER, MARS
    PARKER, Timothy, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109, timothy.j.parker@jpl.nasa.gov
    3:05 PM
    INSIGHT INTO VALLEY NETWORK ACTIVITY FROM MORPHOLOGY IN THE GREATER MERIDIANI PLANUM REGION, MARS (Invited Presentation)
    WILLIAMS, Rebecca M.E.1, CHUANG, Frank C.1, BERMAN, Daniel C.1 and IRWIN III, Rossman P.2, (1)Planetary Science Institute, 1700 East Fort Lowell, Suite 106, Tucson, AZ 85719, (2)Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum, MRC 315, 6th St. at Independence Ave. SW, Washington, DC 20013-7012, williams@psi.edu
    3:20 PM
    GALE CRATER AND IMPACT PROCESSES FROM THE MARS SCIENCE LABORATORY PERSPECTIVE INCLUDING ANALYSIS WITH VIRTUAL REALITY TECHNOLOGY
    NEWSOM, Horton E.1, WIENS, Roger C.2, GALLEGOS, Zachary E.1, ADAIR, Baylee1, WILLIAMS, Joshua3, LE MOUÉLIC, Stéphane4, LEWIS, Kevin5, CALEF III, Fred J.6, EDGETT, Kenneth S.7 and WINTER, Alice B.6, (1)Institute of Meteoritics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, (3)Geology, Western Washington University, Bellingham, (4)Laboratoire de Planetologie et Geodynamique, CNRS/Université de Nantes, 2 rue de la Houssiniere, BP 92208, 44322 Nantes cedex 3 France, Nantes, 92208, France, (5)Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21210, (6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109, (7)Malin Space Science Systems, P.O. Box 90148, San Diego, CA 92191-0148, klewis@jhu.edu
    3:35 PM
    CRATER DENSITIES ON LOWER MOUNT SHARP AS A PROXY FOR MODERN GEOLOGIC EROSION
    CALEF III, Fred John, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109, DAY, Mackenzie D., Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105 and NEWSOM, Horton E., Institute of Meteoritics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, fcalef@jpl.nasa.gov
    3:50 PM
    MORPHOLOGICAL DIVERSITY OF MARTIAN EOLIAN BEDFORMS AS REVEALED BY THE CURIOSITY ROVER AT GALE CRATER, MARS
    LAPOTRE, Mathieu G.A., Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, 20 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138; Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, 1200 E California Boulevard, MC 170-25, Pasadena, CA 91125, EWING, Ryan C., Department of Geology and Geophysics, Texas A&M University, 3115 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843, LAMB, Michael P., Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, WEITZ, Catherine M., Planetary Science Institute, 1700 East Fort Lowell, Suite 106, Tucson, AZ 85719, RUBIN, David M., Earth and Planetary Sciences, UC Santa Cruz, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA 950604, BRIDGES, Nathan T., Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD 20723 and EHLMANN, Bethany L., Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, mlapotre@fas.harvard.edu
    4:05 PM
    CONSTRAINTS ON THE GEOLOGIC HISTORY AND TRANSPORT OF MATERIALS AT FIVE MARS LANDING SITES PROVIDED BY CLAST MORPHOLOGY AND TEXTURE
    YINGST, R. Aileen, Planetary Science Institute, 1700 E. Fort Lowell Rd., Suite 106, Tucson, AZ 85719, CRUMPLER, Larry S., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM 87104, GARVIN, James, NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, GUPTA, Sanjeev, Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom, KAH, Linda C., Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996 and WILLIAMS, Rebecca M.E., Planetary Science Institute, 1700 East Fort Lowell, Suite 106, Tucson, AZ 85719, yingst@psi.edu
    4:20 PM
    THE CLIMATE HISTORY OF MARS: EVIDENCE FROM GEOMORPHOLOGY AND LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION
    HEAD, James W., Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, James_Head@brown.edu
    4:35 PM
    TODAY’S CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF MARS
    MCEWEN, Alfred S. and TEAM, HiRISE Science, Lunar and Planetary Lab, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, mcewen@lpl.arizona.edu
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