An application of sequence stratigraphy to Mars: the Eberswalde fan delta

GeoActa

Volumn , Issue 1, 2008, Pages 237-253

  Pondrelli, Mono ^a   Rossi, Angelo Pio ^b   Marinangeli, Lucia ^a   Hauber, Ernst ^c   Baliva, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b INTERNATIONAL SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fan delta; Mars surface geology; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866729682     PISSN: 17218039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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