System of gigantic valleys northwest of Tharsis, Mars: Latent catastrophic flooding, northwest watershed, and implications for northern plains ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 21, 2000, Pages 3559-3562

  Dohm, J M ^a   Anderson, R C ^b   Baker, V R ^a   Ferris, J C ^a   Hare, T M ^c   Strom, R G ^a   Rudd, L P ^a   Rice, J W ^a   Casavant, R R ^a   Scott, D H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; FLOODS; LASER APPLICATIONS; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; RADIO ALTIMETERS; VOLCANOES; WATERSHEDS;

CATASTROPHIC FLOODING; HEMISPHERES;

GEOPHYSICS;

MARS; OCEAN BASIN; VALLEY;

EID: 17744370338     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000GL011728     Document Type: Article

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