A recent ice age on Mars: Evidence for climate oscillations from regional layering in mid-latitude mantling deposits

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 15, 2009, Pages

  Schon, Samuel C ^a   Head, James W ^a   Milliken, Ralph E ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEPOSITS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITIONS; ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR; CEMENTED SOIL; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; HIGH LATITUDES; ICE AGE; IMAGE DATA; LAYERED DEPOSITS; NEAR-SURFACE;

ICE;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; CRATER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MARS; MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE; REGOLITH; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 70350006794     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL038554     Document Type: Article

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