Choose your own Martian Adventure: Compiling papers to choose from for spring quarter. Send suggestions to sarah.
Some topics: Groundwater sapping as a channel forming process, origin of river networks, lava flows, inverted topography, cyclic floods/cratering, Ice-caps, tiny elongated holes in Gale Crater
Kite et al., 2013. Growth and form of the mound in Gale Crate, Mars: Slope wind enhanced erosion and transport. Geology 41(6) 543-546.
Palucis et al., 2014. The origin and evolution of the Peace Vallis fan system that drains to the Curiosity landing area, Gale Crater, Mars. JGR 119(4):705-728
Jackson, M.P.A., Adams, J.B., Dooley, T.P., Gillespie, A.R., Montgomery, D. R. Modeling the collapse of Hebes Chasma, Valles Marineris, Mars, GSA Bulletin, 10.1130/B30307.1;Data Repository item 2011021.
Montgomery, D. R., Som, S. M., Jackson, M., Schreiber, B. C., Gillespie, A., and Adams, J., Thin-skinned, continental-scale salt tectonics on Mars and the origin of Valles Marineris and associated outflow channels, Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 121, p. 117-133, 2009.
Robert A. Craddock and Alan D. Howard, 2002. The case for rainfall on a warm, wet early Mars JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: PLANETS Volume 107, Issue E11, Pages: 21-1–21-36, DOI: 10.1029/2001JE001505
Yo Matsubara, Alan D. Howard and Sarah A. Drummond, 2011. Hydrology of early Mars: Lake basins JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: PLANETS Volume 116, Issue E4, DOI: 10.1029/2010JE003739
Alan D. Howard, Jeffrey M. Moore and Rossman P. Irwin III, 2005. An intense terminal epoch of widespread fluvial activity on early Mars: 1. Valley network incision and associated deposits JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: PLANETS Volume 110, Issue E12, DOI: 10.1029/2005JE002459
Rossman P. Irwin III, Alan D. Howard, Robert A. Craddock and Jeffrey M. Moore, 2005. An intense terminal epoch of widespread fluvial activity on early Mars: 2. Increased runoff and paleolake development JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: PLANETS Volume 110, Issue E12, DOI: 10.1029/2005JE002460
Isaac B. Smith, John W. Holt, Aymeric Spiga, Alan D. Howard and Gary Parker, 2013. The spiral troughs of Mars as cyclic steps JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: PLANETS Volume 118, Issue 9, Pages: 1835–1857, DOI: 10.1002/jgre.20142
Edwin S. Kite, Scot Rafkin, Timothy I. Michaels, William E. Dietrich and Michael Manga, 2011. Chaos terrain, storms, and past climate on Mars JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: PLANETS Volume 116, Issue E10, DOI: 10.1029/2010JE003792