DrStevenBanham

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Earth Science & Engineering

Teaching Fellow in Planetary Surface Processes

Contact

s.banham CV

Location

Royal School of MinesSouth Kensington Campus

Summary

ORCID iD icon orcid.org/0000-0003-1206-1639

Recent publication:

A Rock Record of Complex Aeolian Bedforms in a Hesperian Desert Landscape: The Stimson Formation as Exposed in the Murray Buttes, Gale Crater, Mars

Steven G. Banham, Sanjeev Gupta, David M. Rubin, Kenneth S. Edgett, Robert Barnes, Jason Van Beek, Jessica A. Watkins, Lauren A. Edgar, Christopher M. Fedo, Rebecca M. Williams, Kathryn M. Stack, John P. Grotzinger, Kevin Lewis, Ryan C. Ewing, Mackenzie Day, Ashwin R. Vasavada

First published: 30 March 2021 JGR-Planets | https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JE006554

Stimson formation unconformity

Research Outline

My research is on the Sedimentological reconstruction of ancient habitable environments on the lower slopes of Mount Sharp, Gale Crater, Mars, using data collected by the Curiosity Rover.

Current investigation involves analysis of grain-scale textures, sedimentary facies, architectural elements, and palaeocurrent data collected from the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) and the MastCam instruments. This information can then be used to reconstruct the ancient martian landscape, and better understand sediment transport processes, depositional envirionments, and the regional climate.

Curiosity Rover

Publications

Journals

Davis JM, Balme MR, Fawdon P, et al.Davis JM, Balme MR, Fawdon P, Grindrod PM, Favaro EA, Banham SG, Thomas N close, 2023, Ancient alluvial plains at Oxia Planum, Mars, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Vol:601, ISSN:0012-821X

Cosgrove JW, Banham SG, Gupta S, et al.Cosgrove JW, Banham SG, Gupta S, Barnes R close, 2022, The Origin of the Fracture Networks in the Mudstones of Gale Crater Mars; Their Implications Regarding the State of Stress and Fluid Pressure During Their Formation and the Depth to Which They Were Buried, Journal of Geophysical Research-planets, Vol:127, ISSN:2169-9097

Sutter B, McAdam AC, Wong GM, et al.Sutter B, McAdam AC, Wong GM, Clark JV, Archer PD, Franz HB, Gasda PJ, Ming DW, Yen A, Lewis JMT, Schwenzer SP, Turner SMR, Rampe EB, Eigenbrode JL, Stern JC, Thompson LM, Dehouck E, Bedford C, Banham S, Bryk AB, O’Connell-Cooper C, House CS, Millan M, Freissinet C, Navarro-Gonzalez R, Mahaffy PR, Malespin CA close, 2022, Constraining Alteration Processes Along the Siccar Point Group Unconformity, Gale Crater, Mars: Results From the Sample Analysis at Mars Instrument, Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, Vol:127, ISSN:2169-9097

Banham SG, Gupta S, Rubin DM, et al.Banham SG, Gupta S, Rubin DM, Bedford CC, Edgar LA, Bryk AB, Dietrich WE, Fedo CM, Williams RM, Caravaca G, Barnes R, Paar G, Ortner T, Vasavada AR close, 2022, Evidence for Fluctuating Wind in Shaping an Ancient Martian Dune Field: The Stimson Formation at the Greenheugh Pediment, Gale Crater, Journal of Geophysical Research-planets, Vol:127, ISSN:2169-9097

Caravaca G, Mangold N, Dehouck E, et al.Caravaca G, Mangold N, Dehouck E, Schieber J, Zaugg L, Bryk AB, Fedo CM, Le Mouelic S, Le Deit L, Banham SG, Gupta S, Cousin A, Rapin W, Gasnault O, Rivera-Hernandez F, Wiens RC, Lanza NL close, 2022, From Lake to River: Documenting an Environmental Transition Across the Jura/Knockfarril Hill Members Boundary in the Glen Torridon Region of Gale Crater (Mars), Journal of Geophysical Research-planets, Vol:127, ISSN:2169-9097

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