One of the detractors is Gene Domack, a sedimentologist from Hamilton College in Clinton, N . Y . He and graduate student Asa Chong left a series of ocean sediment traps moored in the water here last year, to be recovered this morning.
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The finely focused imagery reveals a distinctive " cross-bedding, " or layering of sediments, that on Earth forms in flowing water, said Steve Squyres ( the Cornell University astronomer who serves as the mission's principal investigator, and John Grotzinger, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology sedimentologist .)
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"' Monzer Makhous "'( also " Mounzir ",; born 1946 ) ) is a Syrian sedimentologist who became a member of the Syrian National Council during the Syrian civil war ., he was recognised by France as a representative of the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces and as the future Syrian Ambassador " once a provisional government is established and recognised internationally ."