Paleolakes, paleofloods, and depressions in Aurorae and Ophir Plana, Mars: Connectivity of surface and subsurface hydrological systems

Icarus

Volumn 201, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 474-491

  Komatsu, Goro ^a   Di Achille, Gaetano ^a   Popa, Ciprian ^b,c   Di Lorenzo, Stefano ^a   Rossi, Angelo Pio ^d   Rodriguez, Jose Alexis Palmero ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI CAPODIMONTE   (Italy)

^c ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA UNIVERSITY OF IASI   (Romania)

^d INTERNATIONAL SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^e PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Geological processes; Mars; Mineralogy; surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349133099     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.01.010     Document Type: Article

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