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  <dc:contributor>Michael T. Mellon</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Maria E. Banks</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Laszlo P. Keszthelyi</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Alfred S. McEwen</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>Sara Martinez-Alonso</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2011</dc:date>
  <dc:description>Chryse and Acidalia Planitiae show numerous examples of enigmatic landforms previously interpreted to have been influenced by a water/ice-rich geologic history. These landforms include giant polygons bounded by kilometer-scale arcuate troughs, bright pitted mounds, and mesa-like features. To investigate the significance of the last we have analyzed in detail the region between 60&amp;deg;N, 290&amp;deg;E and 10&amp;deg;N, 360&amp;deg;E utilizing HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) images as well as regional-scale data for context. The mesas may be analogous to terrestrial tuyas (emergent sub-ice volcanoes), although definitive proof has not been identified. We also report on a blocky unit and associated landforms (drumlins, eskers, inverted valleys, kettle holes) consistent with ice-emplaced volcanic or volcano-sedimentary flows. The spatial association between tuya-like mesas, ice-emplaced flows, and further possible evidence of volcanism (deflated flow fronts, volcanic vents, columnar jointing, rootless cones), and an extensive fluid-rich substratum (giant polygons, bright mounds, rampart craters), allows for the possibility of glaciovolcanic activity in the region.Landforms indicative of glacial activity on Chryse/Acidalia suggest a paleoclimatic environment remarkably different from today's. Climate changes on Mars (driven by orbital/obliquity changes) or giant outflow channel activity could have resulted in ice-sheet-related landforms far from the current polar caps.</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>10.1016/j.icarus.2011.01.004</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>Elsevier</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>Evidence of volcanic and glacial activity in Chryse and Acidalia Planitiae, Mars</dc:title>
  <dc:type>article</dc:type>
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