[HTML][HTML] Red Sea tectonics unveil one of the largest terrestrial ice streams: New constraints on Late Ordovician ice sheet dynamics

MS Elhebiry, M Sultan, AZ Abotalib, AE Kehew… - Earth and Planetary …, 2022 - Elsevier
Mega-streamlined landforms on Earth and Mars have been attributed to aeolian,
glaciogenic, fluvial, and tectonic processes. Identifying the forces that shaped these …

Glacial onset predated Late Ordovician climate cooling

A Pohl, Y Donnadieu, G Le Hir, JB Ladant… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The Ordovician glaciation represents the acme of one of only three major icehouse periods
in Earth's Phanerozoic history and is notorious for setting the scene for one of the “big five” …

Calculating ice volumes and ice flux to constrain the dimensions of a 440 Ma North African ice sheet

DP Le Heron, JA Dowdeswell - Journal of the Geological Society, 2009 - lyellcollection.org
Geological evidence indicates that the Sahara was glaciated by a large ice sheet c. 440 Ma
ago. Two end-member theories have been proposed for the large-scale configuration of this …

Extensive Noachian fluvial systems in Arabia Terra: Implications for early Martian climate

JM Davis, M Balme, PM Grindrod… - …, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Valley networks are some of the strongest lines of evidence for extensive fluvial activity on
early (Noachian;> 3.7 Ga) Mars. However, their purported absence on certain ancient …

The geology of ancient fluvial and lacustrine systems in Arabia Terra and Melas Chasma, Mars

JM Davis - 2017 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
Fluvial and lacustrine processes were abundant on early Mars. However, key questions
remain about the extent of these processes and the climate in which they formed. This thesis …

Aram Dorsum: An extensive mid‐Noachian age fluvial depositional system in Arabia Terra, Mars

MR Balme, S Gupta, JM Davis… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A major debate in Mars science is the nature of the early Mars climate, and the availability of
precipitation and runoff. Observations of relict erosional valley networks have been …

Evidence for late ordovician glaciation of Al kufrah basin, Libya

DP Le Heron, J Howard - Journal of African Earth Sciences, 2010 - Elsevier
Fieldwork at the flanks of Al Kufrah Basin, Libya, reveals that Late Ordovician ice sheets
were present in the eastern Sahara and that they extended northeastward toward Egypt …

Fluvial depositional systems of the African humid period: An analog for an early, wet Mars in the eastern Sahara

AS Zaki, JM Davis, KS Edgett… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A widely hypothesized but complex transition from widespread fluvial activity to
predominantly aeolian processes is inferred on Mars based on remote sensing data …

Ancient stratigraphy preserving a wet‐to‐dry, fluvio‐lacustrine to aeolian transition near Barth crater, Arabia Terra, Mars

M Day, KS Edgett, D Stumbaugh - Journal of Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Ancient lacustrine and aeolian sediments have been separately identified in a variety of
locations on Mars. In this work, we interpret the depositional history of Barth crater and its …

A diverse array of fluvial depositional systems in Arabia Terra: Evidence for mid‐Noachian to early Hesperian rivers on Mars

JM Davis, S Gupta, M Balme… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Branching to sinuous ridges systems, hundreds of kilometers in length and comprising
layered strata, are present across much of Arabia Terra, Mars. These ridges are interpreted …