Headward growth of chasmata by volatile outbursts, collapse, and drainage: Evidence from ganges chaos, Mars

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 18, 2006, Pages

  Rodriguez, J Alexis P ^a,b   Kargel, Jeffrey ^c   Crown, David A ^b   Bleamaster III, Leslie F ^b   Tanaka, Kenneth L ^d   Baker, Victor ^c   Miyamoto, Hideaki ^b,e   Dohm, James M ^c   Sasaki, Sho ^a   Komatsu, Goro ^f  

^a NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^b PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f International Research School of Planetary Sciences   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAS HYDRATES; GROUNDWATER; LANDFORMS; PERMAFROST; SEDIMENTS; FLUIDIZATION;

CRUSTAL DESTABILIZATION; MAGMATIC INTRUSION; TERRAIN FRACTURING;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; GAS HYDRATES;

CHANNEL FLOW; COLLAPSE; DRAINAGE; FRACTURE PROPAGATION; GROUNDWATER; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; MAGMATISM; MARS; OUTBURST; OUTFLOW; SEDIMENT;

CHAOTIC TERRAIN; CLATHRATE HYDRATE; DEEP FRACTURES; DEPRESSURIZATIONS; EXPLOSIVE ERUPTION; MAGMATIC INTRUSIONS; MARTIAN SURFACE; OUTFLOW CHANNEL;

EID: 35548958124     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026275     Document Type: Article

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