Postdating of flow in Athabasca Valles by faulting of the Cerberus Fossae, Elysium Planitia, Mars

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 114, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Vetterlein, Joyce ^a   Roberts, Gerald P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULTING; FOOTWALL; INFILL; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; LASER METHOD; MARS; RADAR ALTIMETRY; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; TROUGH;

EID: 70349909583     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JE003356     Document Type: Article

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