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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 29, NO. 1, 1013, doi:10.1029/2001GL013345, 2002

Recent aqueous floods from the Cerberus Fossae, Mars

Devon M. Burr

Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona USA


Alfred S. McEwen

Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona USA


Susan E. H. Sakimoto

Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center, Geodynamics Branch, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland USA


Abstract

Streamlined forms and longitudinal grooving seen in Mars Orbital Camera (MOC) images indicate recent aqueous flooding occurred downslope (south) of the southern-most Cerberus Fossae fissure. Topography from the Mars Orbital Laser Altimeter (MOLA), in conjunction with the absence of fluvial features in MOC images immediately to the north of the Fossa, substantiate the idea that floods emanated from this fissure. The floodwater flowed southward onto the western Cerberus Plains, where it probably percolated into existing lava flows. Thus, shallow ice may still be extant beneath young lava flows in this equatorial region.

Published 15 January 2002.

Index Terms: 6225 Planetology: Solar System Objects: Mars; 5415 Planetology: Solid Surface Planets: Erosion and weathering; 5480 Planetology: Solid Surface Planets: Volcanism (8450); 5499 Planetology: Solid Surface Planets: General or miscellaneous.

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Citation: Burr, D. M., A. S. McEwen, and S. E. H. Sakimoto (2002), Recent aqueous floods from the Cerberus Fossae, Mars, Geophys. Res. Lett., 29(1), 1013, doi:10.1029/2001GL013345.