Water on early Mars: Possible subaqueous sedimentary deposits covering ancient cratered terrain in western Arabia and Sinus Meridiani

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 22, 1997, Pages 2897-2900

  Edgett, Kenneth S ^a   Parker, Timothy J ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; LANDFORMS; MINERALS; SEDIMENTS; SPECTROMETERS;

MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR; POLYGONAL STRUCTURES; SEDIMENTARY DEPOSITS; SEDIMENTARY LAYERS; SEDIMENTARY UNITS; THERMAL EMISSION SPECTROMETERS; TOPOGRAPHIC FEATURES; VALLEY NETWORK;

LANDFORMS; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING;

SEDIMENTARY DEPOSITS; THERMAL EMISSION SPECTROMETERS;

PLANETARY SURFACE; SEDIMENT; WATER;

MARS, SINUS MERIDIANI; MARS, WESTERN ARABIA;

EID: 0031277601     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL02840     Document Type: Article

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