Retreat of a giant cataract in a long-lived (3.7-2.6 Ga) martian outflow channel

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 791-794

  Warner, Nicholas H ^a   Gupta, Sanjeev ^a   Kim, Jung Rack ^b   Lin, Shih 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

CATARACT FORMATION; FLOOD EVENT; HIGH RESOLUTION; LEVEL CHANGE; OUTFLOW CHANNEL; TIME RANGE; UPSTREAM MIGRATION;

GALLIUM; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

FLOODS;

FLOODING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MARS; OUTFLOW; PLANETARY LANDFORM; PLANETARY SURFACE; TOPOGRAPHY; TRIBUTARY;

EID: 77958087119     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G31268.1     Document Type: Article

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