The generation of martian floods by the melting of ground ice above dykes

Nature

Volumn 397, Issue 6716, 1999, Pages 231-233

  McKenzie, Dan ^a   Nimmo, Francis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE; SURFACE WATER;

DIKE; FAULT; FLOOD; MARS; PLANETARY SURFACE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; GEOLOGY; HUMIDITY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MELTING POINT; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOLCANO;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; ICE; MARS; NATURAL DISASTERS;

EID: 0033590556     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/16649     Document Type: Article

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