Pingos, palsas and lithalsas: Comparison with the Martian mounds

[en] On Mars, mounds similar to pingos were described for a long time. From the Canadian Arctic, some rare pingos which are neither of the Greenland type, nor of the Mackenzie type may be equivalent of some features on Mars. On the other hand, remnants of lithalsas looks very similar to "ring shaped features" described by DE PABLO & KOMATSU (2009) in the Utopia Basin.

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Earth sciences & physical geography

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Pissart, Albert ; Université de Liège - ULiège

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English

Title :

Pingos, palsas and lithalsas: Comparison with the Martian mounds

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2011

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Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie

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0372-8854

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Gebruder Borntraeger Verlagsbuchhandlung, Germany

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463-473

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