Zalmai Yawar

Earth and Planetary Sciences · Indiana University

Geology and Paleoclimatology Research Planetary Science and Exploration Geological formations and processes Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis

Publications

Citations

376

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Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

Publishing since 2008

Research summary

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Zalmai Yawar studies how fine-grained sediments like mud, silt, and clay form, move, and settle to become rock layers (mudstones and shales). The work combines laboratory flume experiments, chemical and physical analysis, and comparisons between Earth and Mars, including interpreting ancient lake and river deposits imaged by rovers at Gale crater on Mars.

Mudstone and shale sedimentologySediment transport and deposition experimentsMars-Earth analog geologyAncient lake and river (lacustrine/fluvial) depositsFlocculation and clay mineral behavior

Publication activity has been fairly steady at a low volume over the past decade, with a peak of five papers in 2022 and roughly one per year in more recent years.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 11, 2026

Publication cadence

Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 1.6/year recently

Recent publications

ASSESSING THE PREVALENCE OF MUDSTONES IN THE CONTIGO MEMBER OF THE MIRADOR FORMATION
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · 2026
Controls on flocculation and accumulation of mud from moving suspensions: experimental insights into the roles of mineralogy, salinity, suspended sediment concentration, flow velocity and microbes
Sedimentology · 2025
Evaporitic–lacustrine mudstone laminites and prodelta mudlobes – continuity and change in the Hartmann's Valley interval, Murray formation, Gale crater, Mars
Sedimentology · 2024
Mars is a mirror – Understanding the Pahrump Hills mudstones from a perspective of Earth analogues
Sedimentology · 2022
Unravelling the fabrics preserved inside early diagenetic concretions: Insights for the distribution, accumulation and preservation of organic-rich mud in the interior of epicontinental basins
Sedimentary Geology · 2022
MARS IS A MIRROR, 2: THE PAHRUMP HILLS MEMBER OF THE MURRAY FORMATION, GALE CRATER, MARS—AN EVAPORATIVE LAKE FACIES ASSOCIATION FORMED IN AN UNDERFILLED THROUGH-FLOW LAKE BASIN TYPE
Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America · 2022
MARS IS A MIRROR, 1 – UNDERSTANDING THE PAHRUMP HILLS MUDSTONES FROM A PERSPECTIVE OF EARTH ANALOGS THROUGH AN INTEGRATIVE PHYSICAL-CHEMICAL ANALYTICAL-EXPERIMENTAL-MODELING STUDY
Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America · 2022
Kaolinite deposition from moving suspensions: The roles of flocculation, salinity, suspended sediment concentration and flow velocity/bed shear
Sedimentology · 2022
Eighteen Months Continuous Eolian Transport of Sand-Size Mudstone Clasts - Experimental Results and Implications for Interpreting Mudstone Strata at Gale Crater, Mars
LPI · 2020
Using Mahli Images for Detection of Gypsum in the Murray Formation at Gale Crater, Mars
Lunar and Planetary Science Conference · 2019
On the Eolian Transport Durability of Sand-Size Mudstone Clasts - The Potential for Martian Sand Dunes that are Composed of Fine Grained Aggregates and Implications for Interpreting Mudstone Strata at Gale Crater, Mars
LPI · 2019
How Mud and Sand May Mingle: Exploring Co-Transport and Deposition Sand and Mud with Flume Experiments - Implications for Shale Sedimentology and Fluvial Systems
AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts · 2019
With the Nose to the Ground — Exploring the Pahrump Hills Outcrop with MARDI for New Perspectives on the Mudstones of the Murray Formation at Gale Crater, Mars
LPI · 2018
On the origin of silt laminae in laminated shales
Sedimentary Geology · 2017

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Sedimentology×5
LPI×3
Sedimentary Geology×2
Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America×2
Marine and Petroleum Geology×1

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Last updated Jul 11, 2026.

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