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Nick Hoffman — 5/29/2004 3:36:10 PM (archived)

If Shinbrot et al. had had that image available, it would have doubled the value of their recent paper. Those criss-cross wave patterns are just like the interactions of a fluidised debris sheet cascading down the broad channel.

Published online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences:

Troy Shinbrot, N.-H. Duong, L. Kwan, and M. M. Alvarez
Dry granular flows can generate surface features resembling those
seen in Martian gullies
PNAS published May 28, 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0308251101 (Physics)

Abstract
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/0308251101v1

Supporting Information
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/0308251101/DC1

Nice one Greg!

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Dust rocks martian river theory - Chris Vancil - 5/25/2004 9:22:14 PM
- re: Dust rocks martian river theory - RobVG - 5/26/2004 4:59:45 PM
  - Head-Biting - Nick Hoffman - 5/26/2004 11:14:05 PM
    - re: Head-Biting - RobVG - 5/28/2004 1:43:32 PM
      - something similar - Greg - 5/29/2004 8:58:08 AM
        
        Well, well, well. - Nick Hoffman - 5/29/2004 3:36:10 PM
        
        in the same area - Greg - 5/30/2004 3:06:39 PM
      - You call *That* Head-Biting? - Nick Hoffman - 5/28/2004 11:51:29 PM
        
        re: You call *That* Head-Biting? - E.P. Grondine - 5/29/2004 6:19:35 PM
    - Volatiles you say.... - et - 5/27/2004 3:53:21 AM
      - re: Volatiles you say.... - Nick Hoffman - 5/28/2004 7:36:19 AM
      - Carbonates very unlikely source for CO2 - Philip Simon - 5/27/2004 11:15:46 PM
        
        re: Carbonates very unlikely source for CO2 - Chris Vancil - 5/28/2004 5:44:25 PM
        
        re: Angle of repose experiment and dust stuff - Chris Vancil - 5/29/2004 7:10:44 AM
- May explain current gullies and streaks - Philip Simon - 5/26/2004 12:39:14 AM

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