Testing for flow in the north polar layered deposits of Mars using radar stratigraphy and a simple 3D ice-flow model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 24, 2011, Pages

  Karlsson, N B ^a   Holt, J W ^b   Hindmarsh, R C A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; DEPOSITS; ICE; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; REFLECTION; STRATIGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WATER VAPOR;

FLOW MODEL; ICE-FLOW MODELS; INTERNAL REFLECTIONS; ISOCHRONES; LAYERED DEPOSITS; MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITERS; RADAR DATA; RADAR REFLECTORS; RADAR SOUNDER; RADAR STRATIGRAPHY;

RADAR;

ABLATION; BEDROCK; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATTER; FLOW MODELING; ICE FLOW; MARS; MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE; POLAR REGION; RADAR IMAGERY; REFLECTIVITY; STRATIGRAPHY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WATER VAPOR;

LINGULA;

EID: 84855271481     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049630     Document Type: Article

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