Is there an orbital signal in the polar layered deposits on Mars?

Geology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 155-158

  Taylor Perron, J ^a,b   Huybers, Peter ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTO-REGRESSIVE; CLIMATE SYSTEM; DUST STORM; LAYER COMPOSITION; LAYERED DEPOSITS; NON-LINEARITY; ORBITAL CONTROL; ORBITAL FORCING; ORBITAL PRECESSION; SPECTRAL POWER; STOCHASTIC FORMATION; TIME-SCALES;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; STORMS; STRATIGRAPHY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DEPOSITS;

DETECTION METHOD; LAYERED MEDIUM; MARS; NONLINEARITY; ORBITAL FORCING; PLANETARY EVOLUTION; PLANETARY SURFACE; SIGNAL; STOCHASTICITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 62549154188     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G25143A.1     Document Type: Article

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