Martian gullies in the southern mid-latitudes of Mars: Evidence for climate-controlled formation of young fluvial features based upon local and global topography

Icarus

Volumn 188, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 315-323

  Dickson, James L ^a   Head, James W ^a   Kreslavsky, Mikhail ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

climate; Geological processes; Mars; surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247860848     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.11.020     Document Type: Article

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