Amazonian-aged fluvial valley systems in a climatic microenvironment on Mars: Melting of ice deposits on the interior of Lyot crater

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Dickson, J L ^a   Fassett, C I ^a   Head, J W ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE TRANSITION; COLD CONDITIONS; DRAINAGE PATTERNS; HIGH SURFACE PRESSURE; ICE DEPOSIT; LIQUID WATER; LOCAL CONDITIONS; MICROENVIRONMENT; MIDLATITUDES; NEAR-SURFACE; TEMPERATURE CONDITIONS; TOPOGRAPHIC GRADIENTS; VALLEY NETWORK;

DEPOSITS; ICE; MELTING;

LANDFORMS;

CRATER; ICE; MARS; MELTING; VALLEY;

HESPERIA;

EID: 67449113428     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL037472     Document Type: Article

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