Dune fields on Mars: Recorders of a climate change?

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 314-321

  Gardin, Emilie ^a   Allemand, Pascal ^a   Quantin, Cathy ^a   Silvestro, Simone ^b,c   Delacourt, Christophe ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b SETI INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^d INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EUROPÉEN DE LA MER   (France)

Author keywords

Dunes; Mars; Morphology; Paleoclimate; Wind directions

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; BEDFORMS; CHARACTERISTIC TIME; CLIMATIC OSCILLATIONS; DUNE FIELDS; DUNES; FACE ORIENTATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GEOMETRIC PATTERNS; GLOBAL CIRCULATION; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE; LOCAL VARIATIONS; MARS; MORPHOLOGICAL STUDY; PALEOCLIMATES; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS; WIND DIRECTIONS;

EARTH (PLANET); MORPHOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84855648816     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2011.10.004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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