Recent volcano-ice interaction and outburst flooding in a Mars polar cap re-entrant

Icarus

Volumn 197, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 24-38

  Hovius, Niels ^a   Lea Cox, Andrew ^a   Turowski, Jens M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mars; surface; Volcanism

Indexed keywords

EID: 49549093384     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.04.020     Document Type: Article

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