PP004
Carbonate Sediments Through Time: Processes of Deposition and Diagenesis

Session ID#: 76982

Session Description:
Carbonate sediments and sedimentary rocks record complex interactions of chemical, biological, and physical processes involved in the precipitation, transport, and diagenesis of sedimentary particles. These processes influencing carbonate petrogenesis, as preserved in rock fabric and chemistry, reflect changing conditions in surface and shallow subsurface environments. This session will focus on process-based approaches to understanding the genesis and diagenesis of carbonate sedimentary rocks over geologic time, including new observations and theory from process sedimentology, biogeochemistry, marine and microbial ecology, biomineralization, carbonate stratigraphy and petrography, and fluid-flow characterization. We welcome contributions applying field, petrographic, geochemical, and/or experimental methods to characterize the mechanisms and environments of carbonate deposition and diagenesis over Earth history.
Co-Organized:
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • IAS: International Association of Sedimentologists -
  • SEPM: Society for Sedimentary Geology -
Index Terms:

1039 Alteration and weathering processes [GEOCHEMISTRY]
1051 Sedimentary geochemistry [GEOCHEMISTRY]
4217 Coastal processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4912 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [PALEOCEANOGRAPHY]


Primary Convener:  Lizzy Trower, University of Colorado Boulder, Geological Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Kristin Bergmann, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States and Theodore Michael Present, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Lizzy Trower, University of Colorado Boulder, Geological Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
 
A Tufa Nut to Crack: The Timing and Duration of Lacustrine Tufa Formation in the Late Pleistocene (Invited) (489600)
Christine Y. Chen1,2, David McGee1, Kristin Bergmann1, Jay Quade3, Zixuan Rao1,4, Kristian J Olson5 and Tim K Lowenstein5, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (3)University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, (4)Princeton University, Department of Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, (5)Binghamton University, Department of Geological Sciences and Environmental Studies, Binghamton, NY, United States
 
ARID COASTAL DEPOSITS AND THE PHANEROZOIC RECORD OF MARINE CARBONATE CHEMISTRY (490237)
Benjamin Smith, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, Marjorie Cantine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, Kristin Bergmann, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, Charles Kerans, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, Austin, TX, United States, Evan Joseph Ramos, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, Austin, TX, United States and Rowan C Martindale, Harvard University, Medford, MA, United States
 
Geochemical constraints on the Shuram carbon isotope excursion across a shelf-slope transect in the Wernecke Mountains, Yukon, Canada (490459)
James Busch1, Thomas Howard Boag2, Erik A Sperling3, John A Higgins4 and Justin Vincent Strauss1, (1)Dartmouth College, Department of Earth Sciences, Hanover, NH, United States, (2)Stanford University, Stanford, United States, (3)Stanford University, Department of Geological Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States, (4)Princeton University, Department of Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States
 
Patterns of U uptake and implications for diagenesis and trace element records in biomineral eggshell (Invited) (491910)
Elizabeth M Niespolo1,2, Warren D. Sharp1, Robert Glass3, Carolyn Crow4, Benjamin Jacobsen5, Weisz David3, Christian A Tryon6, Graham Avery7, J. Tyler Faith8, Christopher Henshilwood9, Richard Klein10, Jason E. Lewis11, Alex Mackay12, Kathryn L. Ranhorn13, Teresa Steele14, Karen Van Niekerk9 and Giday W WoldeGabriel15, (1)Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, Livermore, United States, (4)University of Colorado - Boulder, Boulder, United States, (5)Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab., Livermore, CA, United States, (6)Harvard University, Anthropology Department, Cambridge, MA, United States, (7)Iziko Museums of South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa, (8)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, United States, (9)University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (10)Stanford University, Anthropology, Stanford, CA, United States, (11)Stony Brook University and Turkana Basin Institute, Stony Brook, NY, United States, (12)University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia, (13)George Washington University, Center for the Advanced Study of Human, Washington, DC, United States, (14)University of California, Davis, Anthropology, Davis, CA, United States, (15)Newport News Nuclear BWXT/Tetra Tech, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
Carbonate-bound phosphate and Ca isotope range as measures of cation availability and relative alkalinity (492369)
Miquela Ingalls1, Clara L Blättler2, John A Higgins3, Joshua Phelan4, John S Magyar5, John M Eiler6 and Woodward W Fischer6, (1)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, (3)Princeton University, Department of Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, (4)California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA, United States, (5)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (6)Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
A Multi-Approach Diagenetic Study of Late Triassic Atoll-Type Carbonates From Dalnegorsk Area (Taukha Terrane, Far Eastern Russia) (494164)
Giovan Peyrotty, Beaumont, France, Benjamin Brigaud, GEOPS, Paris, France and Rossana Martini, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
 
Cortical Stratigraphy of Ooids from Great Salt Lake, UT (499087)
Lizzy Trower, University of Colorado Boulder, Geological Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, Sophia Lynn Bridgers, University of Colorado Boulder, Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, Michael P. Lamb, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Woodward W Fischer, California Institute of Technology, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Implications of Giant Ooids for the Carbonate Chemistry of Early Triassic Oceans (499852)
Xiaowei Li1, Lizzy Trower2, Daniel J Lehrmann3, Marcello Minzoni4, Brian M Kelley5, Ellen K Schaal6, Meiyi Yu7 and Jonathan Payne1, (1)Stanford University, Department of Geological Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)University of Colorado Boulder, Geological Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Trinity University, Department of Geosciences, San Antonio, United States, (4)University of Alabama, Department of Geological Sciences, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, (5)ExxonMobil Upstream Business Development Company, Spring, United States, (6)DePaul University, Department of Environmental Science & Studies, Chicago, United States, (7)Guizhou University, Department of Resources & Environmental Engineering, Guiyang, China
 
Preliminary result on reinterpretation of so-called “LLH-type stromatolite”: Lower Ordovician Mungok Formation, Yeongwol Group, Korea (501422)
Jeong-Hyun Lee, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of (South)
 
The Miocene start of modern carbonate platforms (509428)
Christian Betzler, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany and Gregor Paul Eberli, Univ Miami, Miami, FL, United States
 
Mechanisms involved in calcium carbonate precipitation by marine microorganisms (509594)
Kanami Mori-Yasumoto1, Ko Yasumoto2, Jun Yasumoto3, Mina Hirose Yasumoto4, Mitsuru Jimbo5 and Shugo Watabe5, (1)Tokushima Bunri University, Pharmaceutical Sciences at Kagawa Campus, Sanuki, Kagawa, Japan, (2)Kitasato University, School of Marine Biosciences, Aomori, Japan, (3)University of the Ryukyus, Faculty of Agriculture, Okinawa, Japan, (4)Tropical Technology Plus, Uruma, Okinawa, Japan, (5)Kitasato University, School of Marine Biosciences, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
 
Effect of polyamine transporter inhibitor on the pH increase in calcifying fluids of juvenile coral polyps possibly involved in calcification processes (509760)
Ko Yasumoto1, Azusa Kubota2, Jun Yasumoto3, Kanami Mori-Yasumoto4, Mariko Iijima5, Mina Hirose Yasumoto6, Akira Iguchi7, Mitsuru Jimbo2 and Shugo Watabe2, (1)Kitasato University, School of Marine Biosciences, Aomori, Japan, (2)Kitasato University, School of Marine Biosciences, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan, (3)University of the Ryukyus, Faculty of Agriculture, Okinawa, Japan, (4)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (5)Kitasato University, School of Marine Biosciences, Sagamihara, Japan, (6)Tropical Technology Plus, Uruma, Okinawa, Japan, (7)National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan
 
Lidar-guided stratigraphic model of Pleistocene strata, San Salvador Island, Bahamas: Implications for Sea-level reconstructions, sedimentologic models, and carbonate platform development (510403)
Charles Kerans1, Andrea Nolting2, Shawn Fullmer2, Paul J Moore3, Jason Gulley4, David C Mohrig5, Scarlette Hsia1, Kat Wilson6 and Charles Breithaupt4, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (2)ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Houston, United States, (3)ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Houston, VA, United States, (4)University of South Florida, School of Geosciences, Tampa, FL, United States, (5)Univ of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (6)University of Florida, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States
 
The fate of cold-water carbonate: the scale of time averaging of molluscan aragonite on the productive Alaskan Arctic shelf (518712)
Caitlin A Meadows, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, Susan M Kidwell, Univ Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States and Darrell S Kaufman, Northern Arizona University, School of Earth and Sustainability, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
 
Stability of Upper Ordovician to middle Silurian marine sulfur isotopes recorded in brachiopod carbonate-associated sulfate (523332)
Theodore Present1, Samuel Lukens Goldberg2, Emma Kast3, Kristin Bergmann2, Seth Finnegan4, James William Buchanan Rae5, Andrea Burke6, Daniel Johnson7, David A Fike8, Woodward W Fischer9, Renata Cummins10 and Jess F Adkins1, (1)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (4)University of California Berkeley, Integrative Biology, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)University of St Andrews, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, St Andrews, United Kingdom, (6)University of St. Andrews, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, St. Andrews, United Kingdom, (7)California Institute of Technology, Geological & Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States, (8)Washington University, St. Louis, MO, United States, (9)Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, (10)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
 
Paleohydrologic Control on Lacustrine Carbonate Tufa Distribution in the Winnemucca Basin, NV, USA (525369)
Laura Michelle DeMott, Syracuse University, Earth Science, Syracuse, NY, United States and Christopher A Scholz, Syracuse Univ, Earth Sciences, Syracuse, NY, United States
 
Reaction Rate as the Fundamental Control on Calcite Microcrystal Size (525780)
Mohammed Hashim, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, United States and Stephen E Kaczmarek, Western Michigan University, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Kalamazoo, United States
 
Isochronline on Lateral Chemostratigraphy for Global Correlation and Exception of the Facies Law (528721)
Wei WANG1, Yidi Sheng2, Facheng Ye2, Xiaozheng Chen2, Ling Shu2 and Deqi WANG2, (1)Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Key Laboratory of Economic Stratigraphy and Palaeogeography, Nanjing, China, (2)Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Nanjing, China
 
Reactive Transport Modeling to Study Local Mesogenetic Dissolution in Carbonates Induced by Natural Gas Acidic Components (541769)
Guanru Zhang, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, China and Chen Zhu, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States
 
Monitoring Calcium Carbonate Cementation Dynamics on Aragonite Using Geophysical Methods at Column Scale (543412)
Haozhe Zhang, University of Kansas, Geology, Lawrence, KS, United States, Chi Zhang, University of Kansas, Department of Geology, Lawrence, KS, United States and Duan Wei, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing, China
 
New Insight on the Paleoclimatic Evolution in the Boreal Realm at the Onset of the Lower Cretaceous Chalk Sea. (545172)
Carlette Blok1, Alicia Fantasia1, Kresten Anderskouv2, Jon Ineson3, Niklas Edvardsen2, Thierry Adatte4 and Stéphane Bodin1, (1)Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark, (2)University of Copenhagen, København K, Denmark, (3)Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, København K, Denmark, (4)University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
 
Lipid biomarkers as fingerprints of modern dolomite formation in hypersaline coastal lagoons, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (547043)
Camila Oliveira1,2, Catia Fernandes Barbosa3, Anna Paula Soares Cruz4, Crisogono Vasconcelos5, Timothy I Eglinton5 and Daniel Ariztegui6, (1)Universidade Federal Fluminense, Department of Geochemistry, Niteroi, Brazil, (2)University of Geneva, Department of Earth Science, Geneva, Switzerland, (3)UFF Federal Fluminense University, Geoquimica, Niteroi, Brazil, (4)California State University Bakersfield, Bakersfield, CA, United States, (5)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Geological Institute, Zurich, Switzerland, (6)University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
 
Relative Dolomite Abundance and Carbonate Chemistry of the Past Two Billion Years (555051)
Julia Wilcots, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States and Kristin Bergmann, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
Investigating the origin and biogenicity of spheroidal carbonate particles within an Argentinean Puna plateau travertine system (556304)
Rodolfo Agustin Mors1,2, Fernando Javier Gomez1,2, Estela C Mlewski1,2, Ricardo A Astini1,3, Victoria A Petryshyn4 and Frank A Corsetti5, (1)Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Tierra, Córdoba, Argentina, (2)Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales, Córdoba, Argentina, (3)Universidad Nacional Córdoba, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales, Cordoba, Argentina, (4)University of Southern California, Environmental Studies Program, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (5)University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Ecophysiology of Ooid Microborings Excavated by Endolithic Cyanobacteria (569813)
Usha Farey Lingappa, California Institute of Technology, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States, Woodward W Fischer, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States and Lizzy Trower, University of Colorado Boulder, Geological Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Mid Pleistocene Age for the Great Barrier Reef (575358)
Stephen Obrochta1, Wataru Miwa1, Kotaro Shirai2, Kaoru Kubota3, Yusuke Yokoyama2, Yosuke Miyairi2, Takumi Asada4, Jody Webster5, Mahyar Mohtadi6 and Albert Case Hine7, (1)Akita University, Graduate School of International Resource Science, Akita, Japan, (2)The University of Tokyo, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan, (3)Isotope Geochemistry Group, Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research, JAMSTEC, Tokyo, Japan, (4)Akita University, Department of International Resource Science, Akita, Japan, (5)University of Sydney, Geocoastal Research Group, School of Geosciences, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (6)MARUM - University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (7)University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, St Petersburg, FL, United States
 
Phosphorus enrichment hampers the development of juvenile coral by directly inhibiting biomineral skeleton elongation (583224)
Mariko Iijima1, Ko Yasumoto2, Jun Yasumoto3, Mina Hirose Yasumoto4, Akira Iguchi1, Mitsuru Jimbo5 and Shugo Watabe5, (1)National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan, (2)Kitasato University, School of Marine Biosciences, Aomori, Japan, (3)University of the Ryukyus, Faculty of Agriculture, Okinawa, Japan, (4)Tropical Technology Plus, Uruma, Okinawa, Japan, (5)Kitasato University, School of Marine Biosciences, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
 
Changes in pelagic carbonate accumulation across the Eocene epoch: new insights from ODP Site 1209, Shatsky Rise, Central Pacific Ocean (588206)
Joyeeta Bhattacharya, Rice University, Earth Science, Houston, TX, United States and Gerald R Dickens, Rice Univ, Houston, TX, United States
 
Impact of coastal upwelling intensity on biogeochemical processes associated with primary dolomite precipitation in hypersaline coastal lagoons, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (589979)
Crisogono Vasconcelos1, Gabriela S. Nascimento2, Timothy I Eglinton1, Negar Haghipour1 and Judith A. McKenzie1, (1)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Geological Institute, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)University of Zürich, Department of Geography, Zurich, Switzerland
 
Carbonate microfacies and their utility in Paleoclimatic reconstruction- A case study on Palustrine facies from dinosaur egg-bearing Lameta formation, Jabalpur ( INDIA) (596351)
Anjali Kumari, Seema Singh, Ashu Khosla and Sarabjeet Singh, Department of Geology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
 
Mg and Ca Isotopes and 87Sr/86Sr Ratios Identify the Deep Structural Center of the Williston Basin as a Source of Mg for Dolomitization: Implications for Reconstructing Seawater Secular Records Using Dolomite (603686)
Matthew D Nadeau1,2, Sara R Kimmig1,3 and Chris E Holmden1, (1)University of Saskatchewan, Geological Sciences, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (2)Princeton University, Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Subsurface Science and Technology Group, Richland, WA, United States
 
Interpreting diagenesis in carbonate clumped isotopes: A case study from late Cryogenian glacial carbonates of Svalbard (604407)
Adam B Jost1, Tyler Mackey1, Julia Wilcots1 and Kristin Bergmann2, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
Effects of Reactant Surface Area and Mineralogy on Dolomite Stoichiometry (606685)
Katharine Rose, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, United States and Stephen E Kaczmarek, Western Michigan University, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Kalamazoo, United States
 
The paleogeography conditions of pre-salt Aptian units of Namibe Basin, Angola. (607772)
Leonardo Fadel Cury, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil, Roger Swart, BlackGold Geosciences cc, Windhoek, Namibia, Theodore Present, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and John P Grotzinger, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Modern non-marine carbonate precipitation associated with Mg-clay mineral formation: Case study of alkaline lakes in the Nhecolândia Region, Pantanal, Central Brazil. (608728)
Anelize Manuela Bahniuk Rumbelsperger1, Isis Amstrong2, Camila Athayde3, Gustavo Athayde3, Ana Soares3 and Leonardo Fadel Cury3, (1)Universidade Federal do Paraná, Centro, Brazil, (2)UFPR, Curitiba, Brazil, (3)Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil
 
Documentation of Diatom and Cyanobacteria Associated Calcification in a Lacustrine Whiting Event at Fayetteville Green Lake, New York, USA (610929)
Chloe Lane Stanton, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, Julie Cosmidis, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States and Lee Robert Kump, Pennsylvania State Univ, University Park, PA, United States
 
Microbial communities in the sedimentary substrate of the Laguna Timone maar, southern Patagonia (52ºS) (612848)
Mauricio Calderón, Universidad Andres Bello, Carrera de Geología, Santiago, Chile, Carolina Henriquez, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Laboratório de Análise de Minerais e Rochas, Curitiba, Brazil, José Manuel Pérez-Donoso, Universidad Andres Bello, Centro de Bioinformática y Biología Integrativa, Santiago, Chile, Leonardo Fadel Cury, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil and Anelize Manuela Bahniuk Rumbelsperger, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Centro, Brazil
 
Constraining geochemical and microbiological controls on mineralization and morphology of calcifying microbial mats on the southwest shore of Puerto Rico. (620258)
Bryan J. Rodriguez-Colon1, Jennifer A. Roberts1, Yasawantha Hiripitiyage2, Gregory S. Baker3, Wilson R Ramirez-Martinez4, Belinda Sturm2, Aliyah Chabrer-Alpi4 and Marissa A. Duckett5, (1)University of Kansas, Geology, Lawrence, KS, United States, (2)University of Kansas, Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering, Lawrence, KS, United States, (3)Colorado Mesa University, Department of Physical & Environmental Sciences, Grand Junction, CO, United States, (4)University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Geology, Mayaguez, PR, United States, (5)University of Kansas, Biology, Lawrence, KS, United States
 
The D48 Proxy: Calibration and Beyond (623381)
Peter K Swart, University of Miami, Marine Geosciences, Miami, FL, United States, Chaojin Lu, University of Miami, RSMAS, Miami, United States, Megan Elizabeth Smith, RSMAS University of Miami, Marine Geoscience, Miami, FL, United States, Evan Moore, University of Miami, Key Biscayne, United States, Philip Staudigel, University of Cardiff, San Diego, United States and Sean Murray, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
 
A Phanerozoic Time-Series of Marine Calcite Cement Mg/Ca (629494)
Franciszek Hasiuk, Kansas Geological Survey, University of Kansas, Energy Research, Lawrence, KS, United States
 
Magnesium and strontium stable isotopes in hypersaline microbial mats (630906)
Michael Tatzel, University of California, Institute of Marine Sciences, Santa Cruz, United States, Adina Paytan, UCSC-Inst Marine Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, Zach A DiLoreto, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Maria Dittrich, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Monica Sanchez-Roman, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands and Tomaso R.R. Bontognali, Space Exploration Institute, Neuchâtel, Switzerland