A refined chronology of catastrophic outflow events in Ares Vallis, Mars

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 288, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 58-69

  Warner, Nicholas ^a   Gupta, Sanjeev ^a   Muller, Jan Peter ^b   Kim, Jung Rack ^b   Lin, Shih Yuan ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

catastrophic flooding; crater count statistics; Mars; outflow channel; planetary geomorphology

Indexed keywords

CATASTROPHIC FLOODING; CRATER COUNT STATISTICS; MARS; OUTFLOW CHANNEL; PLANETARY GEOMORPHOLOGY;

CAMERAS; GALLIUM; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDFORMS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; CRATER; EROSION; FLOODING; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; MARS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OUTFLOW; PLANETARY LANDFORM;

HESPERIA;

EID: 70350769103     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.09.008     Document Type: Article

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