Groundwater formation of martian valleys

Nature

Volumn 397, Issue 6720, 1999, Pages 589-591

  Malin, Michael C ^a   Carr, Michael H ^b  

^a MALIN SPACE SCIENCE SYSTEMS   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUND WATER; RUNOFF;

CHANNEL; GROUNDWATER; MARS; OUTFLOW; PLANETARY SURFACE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CAMERA; CLIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; MARS; PHOTOGRAPHY; WATER;

EID: 0033580267     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/17551     Document Type: Article

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