Supraglacial and proglacial valleys on Amazonian Mars

Icarus

Volumn 208, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 86-100

  Fassett, Caleb I ^a   Dickson, James L ^a   Head, James W ^a   Levy, Joseph S ^b   Marchant, David R ^c  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geological processes; Mars; Mars, climate; Mars, surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953536586     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.02.021     Document Type: Article

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