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Martian outflow channels: How did their source aquifers form, and why did they drain so rapidly?

Catastrophic floods generated ~3.2 Ga by rapid groundwater evacuation scoured the Solar System’s most voluminous channels, the southern circum-Chryse outflow channels. Based on Viking Orbiter data analysis, it was hypothesized that these outflows emanated from a global Hesperian cryosphere-confined...

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Autores principales: Rodriguez, J. Alexis P., Kargel, Jeffrey S., Baker, Victor R., Gulick, Virginia C., Berman, Daniel C., Fairén, Alberto G., Linares, Rogelio, Zarroca, Mario, Yan, Jianguo, Miyamoto, Hideaki, Glines, Natalie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4562069/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26346067
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep13404