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Dec 2000
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000dps....32.6504d&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, DPS Meeting #32, #65.04; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 32, p.1640
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A moving body on Earth is deflected to the right (of the direction of motion) in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere due to the Earth's rotation (the Coriolis effect). The compound centrifugal force causes water in terrestrial rivers to be deflected more toward one bank and hence water erodes it more than the other bank. The effect is more pronounced in rivers flowing mostly north or south (e.g., Volga river). We propose to use this effect to test whether there was flowing liquid water in the large Martian channels, since if only ice was present it would have been creeping much slower or even could have been frozen to the channel bed and the effect on the channel banks would not be observed. According to Golombek et al. (2000), the erosion rates at the Pathfinder landing site were less than nm/yr for the last 1.8-3.5 Gyrs. The same erosion rates were derived earlier by Arvidson et al. (1979) for the Viking landing sites. This allows to conclude that after the erosion by deflected liquid water additional erosional effects caused by other forces might have been very small. We suggest, using the recent MGS MOLA and MOC data, to compare the slopes 1) of both channel banks; 2) of the channel banks in Northern and Southern Martian hemispheres. This research was carried out at JPL a contract with NASA.
Duxbury N. S.
Nealson Kenneth H.
Romanovsky V. E.
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