A large sedimentary basin in the Terra Sirenum region of the southern highlands of Mars

Icarus

Volumn 212, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 579-589

  Davila, Alfonso F ^a,b   Gross, Christoph ^c   Marzo, Giuseppe A ^b,d,f   Fairén, Alberto G ^a,b   Kneissl, Thomas ^c   McKay, Christopher P ^b   Dohm, James M ^e  

^a SETI INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d BAY AREA ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^f NEA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Basin; Evaporites; Highlands; Noachian; Water

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952897743     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.12.023     Document Type: Article

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