A new hypothesis for the origin and redistribution of sulfates in the equatorial region of western Mars

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Fan, Chaojun ^a   Schulze Makuch, Dirk ^a   Fairén, Alberto G ^b   Wolff, John A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANETS; SEDIMENTS; TECTONICS; WATER;

MARTIAN HEMISPHERE; PHYSIOGRAPHIC PROCESSES;

SULFATE MINERALS;

MARS; MODELING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SULFATE;

EID: 44349145999     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL033079     Document Type: Article

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