Floods from fossae: A review of amazonian-aged extensional-tectonic megaflood channels on mars

Megaflooding on Earth and Mars

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 194-208

  Burr, Devon M ^a   Wilson, Lionel ^b   Bargery, Alistair S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511635632.010     Document Type: Chapter

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