Did ice streams shape the largest channels on Mars?

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Oct 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007georl..3419202k&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 34, Issue 19, CiteID L19202

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Cryosphere: Ice Streams, Cryosphere: Modeling, Planetary Sciences: Solid Surface Planets: Erosion And Weathering, Planetary Sciences: Solid Surface Planets: Glaciation, Planetary Sciences: Solid Surface Planets: Polar Regions

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The largest channels on Mars are the Northwestern Slope Valleys (NSVs) of Tharsis, which have previously been interpreted as the probable erosional trace of catastrophic flooding. It is argued here that ice-streaming within ancient ice sheets emplaced by atmospheric precipitation at high mean obliquity may instead account for these channels, explaining similarities between the region and terrestrial Pleistocene subglacial landscapes. An ice-sheet model shows extensive basal melting in and only in the NSV region, and ice streams which have significant erosive power.

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