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Published in 2014 GSA Annual Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia
In most regions of Mars, aeolian processes dominate landscape evolution, slowly wearing down volcanic flows, impact craters, river channels, and polar ice caps. Areas of net erosion are marked by vast fields of coarse-grained ripples and yardangs. Dark dunes composed mainly of mafic sands are common, always superposed by~ 3 m wide bedforms that are...
Published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets
Published in 2013 GSA Annual Meeting in Denver
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9 whether changes in planetary obliquity, precession, or global dust opacity could significantly alter patterns of surface wind directions. In all cases we find the seasonal and annual average wind direction patterns to be highly invariable. While changes in the dust loading (hence the partitioning of solar absorption between the surface and atmosp...
