Local late Amazonian boulder breakdown and denudation rate on Mars

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 3527-3531

  De Haas, Tjalling ^a   Hauber, Ernst ^b   Kleinhans, Maarten G ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

alluvial fan; denudation; late Amazonian; Mars; weathering

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FANS; DENUDATION; DENUDATION RATES; LATE AMAZONIAN; MARS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SURFACE RELIEFS; SURFACE SMOOTHING;

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

WEATHERING;

CATALYST; DESERT; EROSION; MARS; MORPHOLOGY; PAVEMENT; WEATHERING;

AMAZONIA;

EID: 84880577438     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50726     Document Type: Article

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