Late Hesperian plains formation and degradation in a low sedimentation zone of the northern lowlands of Mars

Icarus

Volumn 210, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 116-134

  Rodríguez, José Alexis Palmero ^a   Tanaka, Kenneth L ^b   Berman, Daniel C ^a   Kargel, Jeffrey S ^c  

^a PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Mars, Polar geology; Northern plains, hydrology

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957266874     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.04.025     Document Type: Article

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