Martian climatic events on timescales of centuries: Evidence from feature morphology in the residual south polar ice cap

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 13, 2003, Pages

  Byrne, Shane ^a   Ingersoll, Andrew P ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ICE; SPACE RESEARCH; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

MARTIAN CLIMATIC EVENTS; CLIMATIC EVENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GROWTH PHASE; GROWTH PROCESS; NARROW SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; POLAR ICE CAPS; QUASI CIRCULARS; TIME-SCALES;

GEOPHYSICS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

ICE CAP; MARS; PALEOCLIMATE; POLAR REGION;

EID: 0141849404     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017597     Document Type: Article

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