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Formation of Box Canyon, Idaho, by Megaflood: Implications for Seepage Erosion on Earth and Mars

Formation of Box Canyon, Idaho, by Megaflood: Implications for Seepage Erosion on Earth and Mars

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Formation of Box Canyon, Idaho, by Megaflood: Implications for Seepage Erosion on Earth and Mars

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Formation of Box Canyon, Idaho, by Megaflood: Implications for Seepage Erosion on Earth and Mars

Publisher

Washington, DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Journal title

Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), 2008-05, Vol.320 (5879), p.1067-1070

Language

English

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Washington, DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Contents

Amphitheater-headed canyons have been used as diagnostic indicators of erosion by groundwater seepage, which has important implications for landscape evolution on Earth and astrobiology on Mars. Of perhaps any canyon studied, Box Canyon, Idaho, most strongly meets the proposed morphologic criteria for groundwater sapping because it is incised into...

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Formation of Box Canyon, Idaho, by Megaflood: Implications for Seepage Erosion on Earth and Mars

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_70739045

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_70739045

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ISSN

0036-8075

E-ISSN

1095-9203

DOI

10.1126/science.1156630

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