Stratigraphic architectures spotted in southern Melas Chasma, Valles Marineris, Mars

Geology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 363-366

  Dromart, Gilles ^a   Quantin, Cathy ^a   Olivier, Broucke ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b TOTAL   (France)

Author keywords

Channel; Clinoforms; Levees; Mars; Sequence stratigraphy; Valles Marineris

Indexed keywords

ASTROCLIMATOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHIC ARCHITECTURES; VALLES MARINERIS;

ASTROBIOLOGY; CLIMATOLOGY; LANDFORMS; LEVEES; STRATIGRAPHY;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

CHANNEL; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; FLUVIAL LANDFORM; LEVEE; MARS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; ORBIT DETERMINATION; PLANETARY LANDFORM; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

EID: 34147158356     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G23350A.1     Document Type: Article

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