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Athabasca Vallis is a valley on Mars, the youngest known channel cut into its surface by catastrophic flooding.[1] The flood produced distinctive "teardrop" landforms similar to those found in the channeled scabland region of the United States on Earth.[2] It is thought that these landforms were produced though depositional processes wherein the floodwaters dropped sediment behind resistant bedrock outcroppings and craters.[3] The source of water for the flood is thought to be Cerberus Fossae.[3]

References

  1. ^ http://www.atypon-link.com/IAHS/doi/abs/10.1623/hysj.48.4.655.51407?cookieSet=1&journalCode=hysj
  2. ^ http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/dec02/athabasca/
  3. ^ a b http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2003/pdf/1066.pdf
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