Semiarid climate and upwelling hydrothermal groundwater as a driving force for silica-rich deposits in early Gale lakes on Mars

Natsumi Noda1,2, Yasuhito Sekine1, Shuya Tan1,2, Takazo Shibuya3, Hidenori Genda4 and Robin Wordsworth5, (1)Earth-Life Science Institute, Meguro, Japan, (2)University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Japan, (3)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology - JAMSTEC, Kanagawa, Japan, (4)Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro, Japan, (5)Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States