Light-toned strata and inverted channels adjacent to juventae and ganges chasmata, Mars

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 19, 2008, Pages

  Weitz, C M ^a   Milliken, R E ^b   Grant, J A ^c   McEwen, A S ^d   Williams, R M E ^a   Bishop, J L ^e  

^a PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANDFORMS;

LAYERED DEPOSITS; MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITERS; STRONG CORRELATIONS; SURFACE WATER FLOWS; VALLES MARINERIS; VALLEY NETWORKS;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

CORRELATION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EOLIAN PROCESS; EROSION; FLUVIOLACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LIGHT EFFECT; MARS; PLANETARY LANDFORM; PLANETARY SURFACE;

HESPERIA;

EID: 57749174512     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035317     Document Type: Article

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