Pingos, palsas and lithalsas: Comparison with the Martian mounds

• 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

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.