Closed drainage crater basins of the Martian highlands: Constraints on the early Martian hydrologie cycle

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 103, Issue E13, 1998, Pages 31421-31431

  Forsythe, Randall D ^a,b   Blackwelder, Clyde R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b Department of Geography and Earth Sciences ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRATER; DRAINAGE BASIN; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; MARS; PLANETARY SURFACE;

EID: 0032567284     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98JE01966     Document Type: Article

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