Ice in Channels and Ice-Rock Mixtures in Valleys on Mars: Did They Slide on Deformable Rubble Like Antarctic Ice Streams?

• Main Author: Lucchitta, B. K.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1997
• Subjects: Lunar and Planetary Exploration; Antarctic; Carr; Ross Ice Shelf; Siple; Siple Coast; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2060/19980107899

Recent studies of ice streams in Antarctica reveal a mechanism of basal motion that may apply to channels and valleys on Mars. The mechanism is sliding of the ice on deformable water-saturated till under high pore pressures. It has been suggested by Lucchitta that ice was present in outflow channels...