Evolution and depositional environments of the Eberswalde fan delta, Mars

Icarus

Volumn 197, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 429-451

  Pondrelli, Monica ^a   Rossi, Angelo Pio ^b   Marinangeli, Lucia ^a   Hauber, Ernst ^c   Gwinner, Klaus ^c   Baliva, Antonio ^a   Di Lorenzo, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b INTERNATIONAL SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Geological processes; Mars; surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 51749117153     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.05.018     Document Type: Article

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