Similarities of a martian dome with terrestrial salt domes

Bollettino della Societa Geologica Italiana

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 453-465

  Baioni, Davide ^a   Wezel, Forese Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Karst; Mars; Salts; Terrestrial analogues; Tithonium Chasma

Indexed keywords

EID: 56549104687     PISSN: 00378763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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