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<P>1. Current enigmas identified by the Curiosity rover at the Gale crater</p> <p><U><b>Node I </b></U><i><b>What sourced the enormous flows and volumes that formed the outflow channels and highland-margin contacts of ancient Mars? </b></i>2. The fluvial interpretation of outflow channels on Mars: landforms, processes and paleoenvironmental implications 3. Was there an early Mars ocean? 4. Dry megafloods on Mars: formation of the outflow channels by voluminous effusions of low viscosity lava</p> <p><U><b>Node II </b></U><i><b>Can impact craters be used to derive reliable surface ages on Mars? </b></i>5. Challenges in crater chronology arising from the Jezero impact crater 6. The role of secondary craters on Martian crater chronology</p> <p><U><b>Node III </b></U><i><b>The perplexing story of methane on Mars </b></i>7. Methane on Mars: subsurface sourcing and conflicting atmospheric measurements 8. A review of the meteor shower hypothesis for methane on Mars</p> <p><U><b>Node IV </b></U><i><b>Does water flow on Martian slopes? </b></i>9. The possible role of water in recent surface-processes on Mars 10. Dry formation of recent Martian slope-features</p> <p><U><b>Node V </b></U><i><b>Earth analogues for Mars -- a plethora of choice! </b></i>11. The McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica: a geological, environmental and ecological analog to the Martian surfac 12. The Atacama Desert: a window into late Mars surface habitability 13. Ancient life in diverse habitats from the Pilbara Craton and Mount Bruce Supergroup, western Australia: analogues for early Mars?</p> <p><U><b>Node VI </b></U><i><b>The freeze-thaw cycling of water at/near the Martian surface: present, past and possible? </b></i>14. Pingo-like mounds and possible periglaciation/glaciation at/adjacent to the Moreux impact crater, Mars 15. Thermokarst-like depressions on Mars: age constraints on ice degradation in Utopia Planitia</p> <p><U><b>Node VII </b></U><i><b>Hemispheres together: towards understanding the Mars dichotomy </b></i>16. Forging the Mars crustal-dichotomy: the giant impact hypothesis 17. Endogenic origin of the Martian hemispheric dichotomy? <i>James Roberts</i></p> |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Mars (Planet) -- Geology.
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Geological mapping.
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Mars (Planète) -- Géologie.
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Cartographie géologique.
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Geological mapping
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Planets -- Geology
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Mars (Planet)
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Electronic book.
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Soare, Richard J.
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Print version: 9780128202463 |
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Print version: 0128202459 9780128202456 (OCoLC)1225624595 |
| ISBN |
9780128202463 (electronic bk.) |
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0128202467 (electronic bk.) |
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9780128202456 |
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0128202459 |
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AU@ 000069320169 |
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UKMGB 020135615 |
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AU@ 000069442674 |
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