Physics
Scientific paper
Feb 1991
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991icar...89..392g&link_type=abstract
Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035), vol. 89, Feb. 1991, p. 392-410. Research supported by NASA.
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Mars Surface, Planetary Mapping, Satellite Imagery, Sediments, Structural Basins, Water Erosion, Aquifers, Photomapping, Terrain, Viking Orbiter Spacecraft, Mars, Sedimentation, Valleys, Erosion, Spacecraft Observations, Models, Viking Missions, Orbiters, Terrain, Topography, Lava Flows, Sediment, Transport, Water, Debris, Basins, Thickness, Depth, Analysis, Mapping, Carbonates, Abundance, Distribution, Carbon Dioxide, Geometry, Sapping, Morphology, Margaritifer Sinus, Tyrrhenum, Mare, Iapygia, Aeolis
Scientific paper
Viking orbiter images are presently used to calculate approximate volumes for the inflow valleys of the ancient cratered terrain of Mars; a sediment-transport model is then used to conservatively estimate the amount of water required for the removal of this volume of debris from the valleys. The results obtained for four basins with well-developed inflow networks indicate basin sediment thicknesses of the order of tens to hundreds of meters. The calculations further suggest that the quantity of water required to transport the sediment is greater than that which could be produced by a single discharge of the associated aquifer, unless the material of the Martian highlands was very fine-grained and noncohesive to depths of hundreds of meters.
Goldspiel Jules M.
Squyres Steve W.
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