Groundwater discharge and gully formation on martian slopes

Icarus

Volumn 211, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 238-258

  Goldspiel, Jules M ^a   Squyres, Steven W ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Geological processes; Mars; Mars, Surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650934979     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.10.008     Document Type: Article

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