Influence of fault-controlled topography on fluvio-deltaic sedimentary systems in Eberswalde crater, Mars

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 16, 2011, Pages

  Rice, Melissa S ^a   Gupta, Sanjeev ^b   Bell, James F ^c   Warner, Nicholas H ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; DEPOSITS; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

DELTA DEVELOPMENT; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; DIP-SLIP FAULTS; FLUVIO-DELTAIC; HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING; LANDING SITE; MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITERS; MARS SCIENCE LABORATORY MISSIONS; SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS; SEDIMENTARY DEPOSITS; SEDIMENTARY SYSTEMS; STRATIGRAPHIC UNITS;

TOPOGRAPHY;

CRATER; DELTAIC DEPOSIT; DIP-SLIP FAULT; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; FRACTURE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MAPPING METHOD; MARS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLYGON; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 80052195063     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL048149     Document Type: Article

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