Nature Communications (May 2020)

Sustained fluvial deposition recorded in Mars’ Noachian stratigraphic record

  • Francesco Salese,
  • William J. McMahon,
  • Matthew R. Balme,
  • Veronique Ansan,
  • Joel M. Davis,
  • Maarten G. Kleinhans

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15622-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Using high-resolution orbital imagery of the Martian surface, the authors Salese et al. here describe the first discovered stratigraphic product of multiple extensive fluvial-channel belts in an exposed vertical section at Izola Mensa in the northwestern rim of the Hellas Basin.