More Evidence of Ancient Oceans on Mars ???

Monday, June 14, 2010 11:07 AM
River Deltas Hint at Ancient Martian Ocean by Jon Cartwright
Nature News, June 13, 2010.
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/210424-River-Deltas-Hint-at-Ancient-Martian-Ocean

Di Achille, G., and B. M. Hynek, 2010, Ancient ocean on Mars
supported by global distribution of deltas and valleys. Nature
Geoscience. Published online: 13 June 2010 | doi:10.1038/ngeo891
http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/ngeo891.html

Also, there are:

Di Achille, G., and B. M. Hynek, 2009, Possible Primordial Oceans
on Mars: Evidence from the Global Distribution of Ancient Deltas?
40th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, (Lunar and Planetary
Science XL), held March 23-27, 2009 in The Woodlands, Texas, id.1977
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2009/pdf/1977.pdf

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009LPI....40.1977D

and

Di Achille, G., and B. M. Hynek, 2010, The Case of an Integrated Global
Hydrosphere on Early Mars: Clues from the Distribution of Ancient
Deltas and Valley Networks. 41st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference,
held March 1-5, 2010 in The Woodlands, Texas. LPI Contribution
No. 1533, p.2366
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2010/pdf/2366.pdf

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010LPI....41.2366D

Another paper is:

Fassett, C. I., and J. W. Head, III, 2008, Valley network-fed, open-basin
lakes on Mars: Distribution and implications for Noachian surface and
subsurface hydrology. Icarus. vol. 198, pp. 37–56.

PDF file at http://www.planetary.brown.edu/pdfs/3601.pdf

Yours,

Paul H.