Frosted granular flow: A new hypothesis for mass wasting in martian gullies

Icarus

Volumn 197, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 65-72

  Hugenholtz, Chris H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Earth; Geological processes; Mars; surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 49549121368     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.04.010     Document Type: Article

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