Growth and form of the mound in Gale Crater, Mars: Slope wind enhanced erosion and transport

Geology

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 543-546

  Kite, Edwin S ^a   Lewis, Kevin W ^b   Lamb, Michael P ^a   Newman, Claire E ^c   Richardson, Mark I ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Ashima Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEOLIAN DEPOSITION; AEOLIAN PROCESS; KATABATIC WINDS; MARS SCIENCE LABORATORY; MARTIAN SURFACE; MEASUREMENTS OF; ORGANIC-CARBON PRESERVATION; SEDIMENTARY STRATA;

EROSION; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

PLANETS;

CRATER; DEPOSITION; KATABATIC FLOW; MARS; MORPHODYNAMICS; ORGANIC CARBON; STRATIGRAPHY; WIND EROSION;

EID: 84876810154     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G33909.1     Document Type: Article

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