Megaflood Erosion on Mars — How a Lava-Filled Crater Became a Mesa

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Mar 2012

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2012lpi....43.1117c&link_type=abstract

43rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, held March 19–23, 2012 at The Woodlands, Texas. LPI Contribution No. 1659, id.1117

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A round mesa exists on the floor of the Elaver Vallis outflow channel.
How was the mesa formed in this zone of intense erosion? I theorize the
mesa began as a crater that filled with basaltic lava, then later was
exhumed and eroded by a megaflood.

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