Pingos, palsas and lithalsas: Comparison with the Martian mounds

peer reviewed On Mars, mounds similar to pingos were described for a long time. From the Canadian Arctic, some rare pingos which are neither of the Greenland type, nor of the Mackenzie type may be equivalent of some features on Mars. On the other hand, remnants of lithalsas looks very similar to &qu...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie
Main Author: Pissart, Albert
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Gebruder Borntraeger Verlagsbuchhandlung 2011
Subjects:
Canadian arctic
Hautes-fagnes
Lithalses
Mars
Pingos
Arctic
Canada
Greenland
Physical
chemical
mathematical & earth Sciences
Earth sciences & physical geography
Physique
chimie
mathématiques & sciences de la terre
Sciences de la terre & géographie physique
palsas
Online Access:https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/250186
https://orbi.uliege.be/bitstream/2268/250186/1/Pingos%2c%20palsas%20and%20lithalsasppa.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1127/0372-8854/2011/0051
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Summary:peer reviewed On Mars, mounds similar to pingos were described for a long time. From the Canadian Arctic, some rare pingos which are neither of the Greenland type, nor of the Mackenzie type may be equivalent of some features on Mars. On the other hand, remnants of lithalsas looks very similar to "ring shaped features" described by DE PABLO & KOMATSU (2009) in the Utopia Basin.

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