Ancient drainage basin of the Tharsis region, Mars: Potential source for outflow channel systems and putative oceans or paleolakes

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 106, Issue E12, 2001, Pages 32943-32958

  Dohm, J M ^a   Ferris, J C ^a   Baker, V R ^a   Anderson, R C ^a,b   Hare, T M ^c   Strom, R G ^a   Barlow, N G ^d   Tanaka, K L ^c   Klemaszewski, J E ^e   Scott, D H ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^e ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAINAGE BASIN; MAGMATISM; MARS; PALEOTOPOGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHY;

EID: 0035718718     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000JE001468     Document Type: Article

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