Hesperian equatorial thermokarst lakes in Ares Vallis as evidence for transient warm conditions on Mars

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 71-74

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

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERA IMAGES; CLIMATE WARMING; FLOOD DEPOSITION; HIGH RESOLUTION; LIQUID WATER; MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITERS; NARROW CHANNEL; PERMAFROST DEGRADATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGES; SATURATED SEDIMENTS; TOPOGRAPHIC DATA; WARM CONDITIONS;

EARTH (PLANET); GALLIUM; ICE; LAKES; LANDFORMS; LIQUIDS; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; PERMAFROST; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; THAWING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CRATER; LAKE; MARS; PERMAFROST; SUBLIMATION; THAWING; THERMOKARST;

HESPERIA;

EID: 73849127461     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G30579.1     Document Type: Article

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