Is the Jezero Crater a landscape of
an wind-eroded glacier moraine?
(and the delta is an eroding
remnant of the moraine)
Norbert Brügge, Germany
Dipl.-Geol.
The hope that rover Perseverance's
mission will find traces of life will not come true. The photos available
so far from the mast- camera suggest that the landsscape in the Jezero crater
is a wind-eroded glacier moraine, and the delta is the eroded remnant of this
glacier moraine. The most deposits in the delta are stratified, but contain
a lot of boulders. This boulders are not rounded by running water.The thin
layered deposits in the delta occure as stacked blocks, with discordances
between. That can only mean periodic activities of the glacier. The thin parts
in the moraine probably contain minerals from completely disintegrated volcanic
rocks. It could also be pure volcanic ash
*. Due
to the fact that no deposits caused by flowing water was detected to date,
it is assumed that the moraine only can be created by a dry ice glacier
(Frozen Carbon Dioxide).
The delta is not a lacustrine fan of a river that was flown into a lake.
*New:
the striking stratification in the blocks is primary and not the result of
a secondary deposition in the delta.
Delta Scarp (first photos)
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Fluvial cross-bedding in the delta is that NOT.
This are secondary structures that were come by periodic ice pressure
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Holey boulder with
former olivine phenocrysts
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Sliding boulder
has destroyed the stratification
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Boulders on top
of the moraine
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Massive
and layered material of previously unknown composition in mostly
broken state
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Delta remnant
(Kodiak)

The zoom view of an
isolated remnant of the delta shows partly evenly layered deposits

Sol-409. Remnant "Kodiak".
Compact and thin layered partly disrupted ash deposits without
a real cross-bedding
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