Extensive valley glacier deposits in the northern mid-latitudes of Mars: Evidence for Late Amazonian obliquity-driven climate change

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 241, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 663-671

  Head, James W ^a   Marchant, D R ^b   Agnew, M C ^a   Fassett, C I ^a   Kreslavsky, M A ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Deuteronilus Mensae; Glaciation; Lineated valley fill; Mars

Indexed keywords

DEUTERONILUS MENSAE; GLACIATION; MARS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; ICE; LANDFORMS; MORPHOLOGY; SNOW;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; MARS; ORBITAL FORCING;

EID: 30744442335     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.11.016     Document Type: Article

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