Repeated aqueous flooding from the cerberus fossae: Evidence for very recently extant, deep groundwater on Mars

Icarus

Volumn 159, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 53-73

  Burr, Devon M ^a   Grier, Jennifer A ^b   McEwen, Alfred S ^a   Keszthelyi, Laszlo P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Geological processes; Mars, interior; Mars, surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036752534     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2002.6921     Document Type: Article

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