Layered, massive and thin sediments on Mars: Possible Late Noachian to Late Amazonian tephra?

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 202, Issue , 2002, Pages 273-293

  Chapman, Mary G ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE; MARS; PLANETARY LANDFORM; PLANETARY SURFACE; TEPHRA; VOLCANISM;

EID: 0037005419     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2002.202.01.14     Document Type: Article

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