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Siton Undae
- ... that the Martian dunes of Siton Undae (pictured) are mostly composed of volcanic glass? Source and quote (page 16): "The strongest evidence for the existence of glaciovolcanic eruption products results from the observations by Horgan and Bell (2012a) who used the OMEGA instrument on the European Mars Express satellite. Their detailed spectral analyses of the dark sand seas around the North Pole and the largest dune field Siton Undae in the northern lowlands suggest that 80-90% of these sand fields consist of volcanic glass formed by explosive volcanism, such as glaciovolcanism..."
- Reviewed: asap
Created by Dr.K. (talk). Self-nominated at 05:37, 28 August 2017 (UTC).
