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Mar 1996
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996lpi....27.1005p&link_type=abstract
Lunar and Planetary Science, volume 27, page 1005
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Mars: Oceans
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Coastal morphology is probably the most diagnostic evidence of former lakes that we can expect to find on Mars, at least until unequivocal surface compositional information becomes available in the next few years. The following points should be noted when evaluating a potential shoreline on Mars: (I) Water is an environmentally abundant volatile at Mars' position in the solar system, and liquid water has probably been stable at its surface at various times in the past. (II) Free standing liquid water is confined by gravity to an equipotential upper surface that intersects topography at an essentially constant elevation over large regions. Other liquid volatiles would be similarly confined, but gases would not, so eolian erosional boundaries are not topographically confined and are often indistinct or gradational. (III) Winds blowing across open water generate ripples and waves (or transport rafted ice in cold environments) that transfer their energy to the land, resulting in erosion, sediment transport and deposition that is focused within a few meters of the water level. (IV) Longshore transport moves sediment eroded from headlands into embayments, producing beaches that transit from erosional to depositional, with wave-cut cliffs grading along shore into constructional barriers and spits.
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