Morphology, stratigraphy, and mineralogical composition of a layered formation covering the plateaus around Valles Marineris, Mars: Implications for its geological history

Icarus

Volumn 208, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 684-703

  Le Deit, L ^a,b   Bourgeois, O ^b   Mege D ^b   Hauber, E ^a   Le Mouelic S ^b   Masse M ^b   Jaumann, R ^a   Bibring, J P ^c  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Geological processes; Mars, Surface; Mineralogy

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954659022     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.03.012     Document Type: Article

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