Observations at the Mars Pathfinder site: Do they provide "unequivocal" evidence of catastrophic flooding?

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 104, Issue E4, 1999, Pages 8671-8678

  Chapman, Mary G ^a   Kargel, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; FLOOD; MARS; MARS PATHFINDER;

EID: 0033602610     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98JE02083     Document Type: Article

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