Headward growth of chasmata by volatile outbursts, collapse, and drainage: Evidence from Ganges chaos, Mars

@article{Rodriguez2006HeadwardGO,  title={Headward growth of chasmata by volatile outbursts, collapse, and drainage: Evidence from Ganges chaos, Mars},  author={J. A. Palmero Rodriguez and Jeffrey S. Kargel and David A. Crown and Leslie F. Bleamaster and Kenneth L. Tanaka and Victor R. Baker and Hideaki Miyamoto and James M. Dohm and Sho Sasaki and Goro Komatsu},  journal={Geophysical Research Letters},  year={2006},  volume={33},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:129289415}}
The nature and significance of collapse processes in Capri, Eos, and Ganges Chasmata remain poorly understood. Using Ganges Chasma as a type locality, these chasmata are interpreted to be the result of clustering and assimilation of multiple chaotic terrains, which primarily formed by localized depressurization‐induced or thermally‐triggered dissociation of buried gas clathrate hydrates and explosive eruption of gas‐saturated ground water. Such crustal destabilization could have been triggered… 

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