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Ignimbrite as a substrate for endolithic life in the hyper-arid Atacama Desert: Implications for the search for life on Mars

Jacek Wierzchoś, Alfonso F. Dávila, Octavio Artieda, Beatríz Cámara, Asunción de los Rı́os, Kenneth H. Nealson, Sergio Valea, M. T. García‐González, Carmen Ascaso

Icarus · 2012 · 80 citations · 72 references

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A Chemical Classification of Volcanic Rocks Based on the Total Alkali-Silica Diagram

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JCPDS-International Centre for Diffraction Data

C. R. Hubbard, Gregory J. McCarthy · Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography · 1981 · 1.8K citations · Full text

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Mars-Like Soils in the Atacama Desert, Chile, and the Dry Limit of Microbial Life

R. Navarro‐González, Fred A. Rainey, Paola Molina et al. · Science · 2003 · 595 citations

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Quantitative interpretation of X-ray diffraction patterns of mixtures. II. Adiabatic principle of X-ray diffraction analysis of mixtures

Frank H. Chung · Journal of Applied Crystallography · 1974 · 571 citations

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The central Andean west‐slope rainshadow and its potential contribution to the origin of hyper‐aridity in the Atacama Desert

John Houston, Adrian J. Hartley · International Journal of Climatology · 2003 · 509 citations · Full text

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