Sounding the subsurface of Athabasca Valles using MARSIS radar data: Exploring the volcanic and fluvial hypotheses for the origin of the rafted plate terrain

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 114, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Boisson, Joséphine ^a   Heggy, Essam ^a   Clifford, Stephen M ^b   Frigeri, Alessandro ^c   Plaut, Jeffrey J ^d   Farrell, William M ^e   Putzig, Nathaniel E ^f   Picardi, Giovanni ^g   Orosei, Roberto ^h   Lognonné, Philippe ^a   Gurnett, Donald A ⁱ  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^h INAF IASF ROMA   (Italy)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHO SOUNDING; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; GEOELECTRIC FIELD; LABORATORY METHOD; MARS; PLANETARY EVOLUTION; PLANETARY LANDFORM; PLANETARY SURFACE; RADAR IMAGERY; SATELLITE DATA; TERRAIN; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; VOLCANOLOGY;

EID: 71949090137     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JE003299     Document Type: Article

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