Morphometry of Great Basin pluvial shore landforms: Implications for paleolake basins on Mars

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 117, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Irwin III, Rossman P ^a,b   Zimbelman, James R ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; EROSION; GPS; MARS; MORPHOMETRY; PLANETARY SURFACE; PLEISTOCENE;

GREAT BASIN; UNITED STATES;

HESPERIA;

EID: 84864612393     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JE004046     Document Type: Article

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