Producing Dust Through Simulated Glacial Abrasion of Basalt Clasts with Implications for Mars
Steven M. Adams and Gerilyn S. Soreghan 2025 Planet. Sci. J. 6 124
If Mars’s dust was produced via rock-on-rock grinding of basalt, as may happen at the base of a glacier, the fine dust created this way would have influenced the red planet’s climate.