Observations of martian gullies and constraints on potential formation mechanisms

Icarus

Volumn 168, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 285-304

  Heldmann, Jennifer L ^a,b   Mellon, Michael T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Geological processes; Mars

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842865640     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2003.11.024     Document Type: Article

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