Search Publications

The importance of lake breach floods for valley incision on early Mars

Goudge, Timothy A.; Fassett, Caleb I.; Morgan, Alexander M. +1 more

The surface environment of early Mars had an active hydrologic cycle, including flowing liquid water that carved river valleys^1-3 and filled lake basins^4-6. Over 200 of these lake basins filled with sufficient water to breach the confining topography^4,6, causing catastrophic flooding and incision of outlet canyons<…