Association of phyllosilicates and the inverted channel in Miyamoto crater, Mars

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Marzo, G A ^a   Roush, T L ^a   Lanza, N L ^b   McGuire, P C ^c   Newsom, H E ^b   Ollila, A M ^b   Wiseman, S M ^d  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE; PALEO-CHANNEL; PRESENCE OF WATER; SIMULTANEOUS USE; SMECTITES; SPECTROSCOPIC DATA;

SILICATES;

CRATER; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; MARS; PALEOCHANNEL; PHYLLOSILICATE; POLYGON;

EID: 68949107316     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL038703     Document Type: Article

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