Robert Clark wrote:
I have read the online LPI report.
Icarus is not a journal easily available from my area.

Alex writes:
So, it's not beyond the realm of possibility that some of the sweeping assertions you often make (accompanied by the inevitable string of quotes and references) may not be supported by a careful reading of the source(s), where nuances and qualified statements are commonly found? In other words, there is often more to paper than what is stated in the abstract. At any rate, I am familiar with the Athabasca Valles work as well, and though I agree with the H2O interpretation, I also realize that others do not. Moreover, some of those who do not have some fairly valid arguments as well. Just because a theory or model has been "published," even in a peer-reviewed journal, doesn't make it so.

In other words,

Alex R. Blackwell
University of Hawaii