Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010agufm.p51b1422s&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2010, abstract #P51B-1422
Physics
[1826] Hydrology / Geomorphology: Hillslope, [5419] Planetary Sciences: Solid Surface Planets / Hydrology And Fluvial Processes, [5475] Planetary Sciences: Solid Surface Planets / Tectonics, [8015] Structural Geology / Local Crustal Structure
Scientific paper
The Warrego Rise is a topographical high located in the Thaumasia Mountain Belt, Mars. Its southern slopes are incised by Warrego Valles, a valley network offered as an apparent “smoking gun” by those who ascribe dendritic channel networks to a warmer, wetter climate early in Mars history. Here, we investigate a new formation hypothesis for the Rise, and show that its structure and morphology are consistent with being a culmination caused by imbricate stacking. Such stacking can bring lenses of ice/salt up to high elevation, where fluids resulting from frictional heating or deep aquifers could travel along fractures to the surface, and flow down the Rise, dominantly incising Warrego Valles.
Montgomery David R.
Som Sanjoy M.
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