Episodic Aqueous Conditions Punctuated dominantly Aeolian Deposition within the Layered Sulphate-bearing Unit, Gale crater (Mars)

Sanjeev Gupta1, Lauren A Edgar2, R Aileen Yingst3, Steven Banham4, Alexander B. Bryk5, Gwénaël Caravaca6, William E Dietrich7, John P Grotzinger8, David M Rubin9, William Rapin10, Stephane Le Mouelic11, Amelie Roberts12, Rebecca M. E. Williams13, Juergen Schieber14, Linda C Kah15, Nicolas Mangold11, Tex Kubacki16, Olivier Gasnault17, Roger C Wiens18, Abigail Fraeman19 and Ashwin R Vasavada20, (1)Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (2)USGS, Astrogeology, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (3)Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States, (4)Imperial College London, Department of Earth Science and Engineering, London, United Kingdom, (5)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (6)Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planetologie (IRAP), Toulouse, France, (7)University of California Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, United States, (8)Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, (9)University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (10)Universite de Toulouse, Toulouse Cedex 4, France, (11)CNRS, Nantes Université, Université d'Angers, Le Mans Université, Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géosciences, Nantes, France, (12)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, (13)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, (14)Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States, (15)University of Tennesse, Knoxville, TN, United States, (16)Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, CA, United States, (17)IRAP, CNRS, Université de Toulouse, UPS-OMP, Toulouse Cedex 4, France, (18)Space Science and Applications, Los Alamos, United States, (19)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (20)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States