Valley floor aeolianite in an equatorial pit crater on Mars

High and low albedo lineations in a valley entering a pit in Lucaya crater are overlain by a currently immobile dune field. We propose that they are an aeolianite that formed as the overlying dunes migrated. Implicit in this is the suggestion that available water promoted early cementation of evapor...

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Main Authors: Bourke, M, Viles, H
Format: Journal article
Published: John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 2016