NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 19940015909: Workshop on the Martian Northern Plains: Sedimentological, Periglacial, and Paleoclimatic Evolution

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19940015909
WORKSHOP ON
THE MARTIANNORTHERN PLAINS:
SEDIMENTOLOGICAL,PERIGLACIAL,
AND PALEOCLIMATICEVOLUTION
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coveredinclude:hydrologicaclonsequenceosfpondedwateronMars;
morpho!ogical and morphometric studies of impact cratersin theNorthern
Plainsof Mars; a wet-geology andcold-climatMearsmodel:punctuation of
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. WORKSHOP ON
THE MARTIAN NORTHERN PLAINS:
SEDIMENTOLOGICAL, PERIGLACIAL, AND
PALEOCLIMATIC EVOLUTION
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August 12-14, 1993
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Preface
Thisvolume containspapers thathave been acceptedfor presentationat
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Contents
Hydrological Consequences of Ponded Water on Mars
V. R. Baker .................................................................................................................................... 1
Morphologic and Morphometric Studies of Impact Craters in the
Northern Plains of Mars
N. G. Barlow .................................................................................................................................. 2
Calderas Produced by Hydromagmatic Eruptions Through Permafrost
in Northwest Alaska
J. E. Beg_t ..................................................................................................................................... 3
Milankovitch Insolation Forcing and Cyclic Formation of Large-Scale Glacial,
Fluvial, and Eolian Landforms in Central Alaska ................................................................................. 3
J. E. Beg_t
The Fate of Water Deposited in the Low-Lying Northem Plains
M. H. Carr ..................................................................................................................................... 3
Evidence for an Ice Sheet/Frozen Lake in Utopia Planitia, Mars
M. G. Chapman ............................................................................................................................. 4
A Wet-Geology and Cold-Climate Mars Model: Punctuation of a Slow Dynamic
Approach to Equilibrium
J. S. Kargel .................................................................................................................................... 5
Possible Occurrence and Origin of Massive Ice in Utopia Planitia
J. S.Kargel and F. M. Costard ...................................................................................................... 7
Ice in the Northern Plains: Relic of a Frozen Ocean
B. K.Lucchitta ............................................................................................................................... 9
ObservedClimaticActivityPertainingtothe Evolutionof theNorthern Plains
L. J. Martin andP.B.James 10
A Model for the Origin of Martian Polygonal Terrain
G. E. McGilt ................................................................................................................................ 10
The Distribution of Ground Ice on Mars
M. T. Mellon and B. M. Jakosky .................................................................................................. 12
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i A Marine Sedimentary Model for the Evolution of the Northern Plains
T. J. Parker and D. S. Gorsline .................................................................................................... 12
vi WorkshopontheMarlian NorthernPlains
CryoplanationTerraces of Interior andWestern Alaska
R. D. Reger.................................................................................................................................. 14
TheThumbprintTerrain:What WillMarsObserverTell Us?
M. W. Schaefer ............................................................................................................................ 15
Stratigraphyof theMartian NorthernPlains
K.L. Tanaka................................................................................................................................ 15
Seismic-TriggeringHistoryof the CatastrophicOutflows intheChryse
Region of Mars
K.L. Tanakaand S.M. Clifford .................................................................................................. 17
A Formational Modelfor thePolygonalTerrains of Mars:Taking a"Crack"
at the Genesis of the Martian Polygons
M. L. Wenrich andP.R. Christensen........................................................................................... 19
BalloonExploration of the NorthernPlains of Mars Nearand Northof the
Viking2 Landing Site
F.R. West.................................................................................................................................... 21
Geomorphic Evidence foran EolianContribution to theFormationof the Martian
NorthernPlains
J. R.Zimbelman........................................................................................................................... 21