Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Feb 1981
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1981icar...45..264l&link_type=abstract
Icarus, vol. 45, Feb. 1981, p. 264-303.
Mathematics
Logic
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Cold Weather, Earth Surface, Landforms, Mars Surface, Polar Regions, Terrain, Canals, Glaciers, Land Ice, Landslides, Low Temperature Environments, Polar Caps, Remote Sensing, Viking Orbiter Spacecraft, Planets, Mars, Earth, Comparisons, Climate, Features, Observations, Morphology, Water, Ice, Glaciers, Terrain, Volcanism, Viking Orbiters, Polar Regions, Photographs, Ridges, Grooves, Surface, Atmosphere, Pressure, Formation, Volcanoes, Analogs, Patterns, Thermokarst, Valles Marineris, Gangis Chasma, Argyre
Scientific paper
On earth, glacial and periglacial features are common in areas of cold climate. On Mars, the temperature of the present-day surface is appropriate for permafrost, and the presence of water is suspected from data relating to the outgassing of the planet, from remote-sensing measurements over the polar caps and elsewhere on the Martian surface, and from recognition of fluvial morphological features such as channels. These observations and the possibility that ice could be in equilibrium with the high latitudes north and south of + or - 40 deg latitude suggest that glacial and periglacial features should exist on the planet. Morphological studies based mainly on Viking pictures indicate many features that can be attributed to the action of ice. Among these features are extensive talus aprons; debris avalanches; flows that resemble glaciers or rock glaciers; ridges that look like moraines; various types of patterned ground, scalloped scarps, and chaotically collapsed terrain that could be attributed to thermokarst processes; and landforms that may reflect the interaction of volcanism and ice.
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