Fracture-controlled paleo-fluid flow in Candor Chasma, Mars

Science

Volumn 315, Issue 5814, 2007, Pages 983-985

  Okubo, Chris H ^a   McEwen, Alfred S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEACHING; CEMENTATION; CHEMICAL ALTERATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLUID FLOW; FRACTURE; IMAGING METHOD; MARS; WATER;

ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CEMENTATION; COSMOS; ENVIRONMENTAL EROSION; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT;

EID: 33847139794     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1136855     Document Type: Article

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