CO2 gas fluidization in the initiation and formation of Martian polar gullies

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 21, 2011, Pages

  Cedillo Flores, Yolanda ^a,b   Treiman, Allan H ^b   Lasue, Jeremie ^b,c   Clifford, Stephen M ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; DEPOSITS; DUST; FLUIDIZATION; SEDIMENTS; SUBLIMATION;

LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LOOSE SEDIMENT; NEAR SURFACES; POLAR REGIONS; SEMI-EMPIRICAL; SUBLIMATION RATES; SURFACE SEDIMENTS; THERMAL MODEL;

LANDFORMS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDENSATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FLUIDIZATION; FROST; GULLY; LATITUDE; LIQUID; MARS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLAR REGION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SLOPE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 80655125067     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049403     Document Type: Article

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