Ice-Enriched Loess and the Formation of Periglacial Terrain in Mid-Utopia Planitia, Mars

Soare, R.J.; Conway, S.; Pearce, G.D. and Costard, F. (2012). Ice-Enriched Loess and the Formation of Periglacial Terrain in Mid-Utopia Planitia, Mars. In: Lunar and Planetary Science XLIII, 19-23 March 2012, Houston, TX.

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Abstract

Landforms suggestive of periglacial processes are commonplace in mid-Utopia Planitia, Mars. They form syngenetically in ground-ice comprised of loess transported by katabatic wind from the NPLDs and enriched by ice through the thaw-freeze cycling of obliquity-driven precipitation.

Item Type:	Conference Item
Copyright Holders:	2012 LPI
Academic Unit/Department:	Science > Physical Sciences
Related URLs:	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012LPI......(Other)
Item ID:	35433
Depositing User:	Susan Conway
Date Deposited:	06 Nov 2012 09:41
Last Modified:	12 Nov 2012 11:51
URI:	http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/35433

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