Did (some) carbonate & serpentine alteration of ultramafic rocks on Mars occur via ambient weathering over billions of years?
James Andrew Monton Leong1, Peter B Kelemen1, Owen Evans2, Mark S Ghiorso3, John F Mustard4, Bethany L Ehlmann5, Marc W Spiegelman6, Vinciane Debaille7 and Sierra Kaufman8, (1)Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)Columbia University, New York, NY, United States, (3)OFM Research, Redmond, CA, United States, (4)Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, (5)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (6)Columbia University, New York, United States, (7)Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, (8)Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, United States