DrStevenBanham

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Earth Science & Engineering

Teaching Fellow in Planetary Surface Processes

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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

Watkins JA, Grotzinger JP, Stein NT, et al.Watkins JA, Grotzinger JP, Stein NT, Banham SG, Gupta S, Rubin DM, Morgan KS, Edgett KS, Frydenvang J, Siebach KL, Lamb MP, Sumner DY, Lewis KW close, 2022, Burial and Exhumation of Sedimentary Rocks Revealed by the Base Stimson Erosional Unconformity, Gale Crater, Mars, Journal of Geophysical Research-planets, Vol:127, ISSN:2169-9097

Rubin DM, Lapotre MAG, Stevens AW, et al.Rubin DM, Lapotre MAG, Stevens AW, Lamb MP, Fedo CM, Grotzinger JP, Gupta S, Stack KM, Vasavada AR, Banham SG, Bryk AB, Caravaca G, Christian JR, Edgar LA, Malin MC close, 2022, Ancient Winds, Waves, and Atmosphere in Gale Crater, Mars, Inferred From Sedimentary Structures and Wave Modeling, Journal of Geophysical Research-planets, Vol:127, ISSN:2169-9097

Davis JM, Grindrod PM, Banham SG, et al.Davis JM, Grindrod PM, Banham SG, Warner NH, Conway SJ, Boazman SJ, Gupta S close, 2021, A record of syn-tectonic sedimentation revealed by perched alluvial fan deposits in Valles Marineris, Mars, Geology, Vol:49, ISSN:0091-7613, Pages:1250-1254

Banham SG, Gupta S, Rubin DM, et al.Banham SG, Gupta S, Rubin DM, Edgett KS, Barnes R, Van Beek J, Watkins JA, Edgar LA, Fedo CM, Williams RM, Stack KM, Grotzinger JP, Lewis K, Ewing RC, Day M, Vasavada AR close, 2021, A Rock Record of Complex Aeolian Bedforms in a Hesperian Desert Landscape: The Stimson Formation as Exposed in the Murray Buttes, Gale Crater, Mars, Journal of Geophysical Research-planets, Vol:126, ISSN:2169-9097

Fraeman AA, Edgar LA, Rampe EB, et al.Fraeman AA, Edgar LA, Rampe EB, Thompson LM, Frydenvang J, Fedo CM, Catalano JG, Dietrich WE, Gabriel TSJ, Vasavada AR, Grotzinger JP, L'Haridon J, Mangold N, Sun VZ, House CH, Bryk AB, Hardgrove C, Czarnecki S, Stack KM, Morris RV, Arvidson RE, Banham SG, Bennett KA, Bridges JC, Edwards CS, Fischer WW, Fox VK, Gupta S, Horgan BHN, Jacob SR, Johnson JR, Johnson SS, Rubin DM, Salvatore MR, Schwenzer SP, Siebach KL, Stein NT, Turner SMR, Wellington DF, Wiens RC, Williams AJ, David G, Wong GM close, 2020, Evidence for a diagenetic origin of vera rubin ridge, gale crater, Mars: summary and synthesis of curiosity's exploration campaign, Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, Vol:125, ISSN:2169-9097, Pages:1-34

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