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Manga 2004
Manga, M. (2004). Martian floods at Cerberus Fossae can be produced by groundwater discharge. Geophysical Research Letters 31: doi: 10.1029/2003GL018958. issn: 0094-8276.

Young flood channels emanate from Cerberus Fossae, Mars. In order to determine whether subsurface aquifers can discharge water sufficiently fast to explain these flood features, I develop a model that couples groundwater flow in a sub-cryosphere aquifer with flow through a fissure that penetrates from the surface to the aquifer. The model is constrained by estimates of peak discharge, and the distance water flowed uphill from the fissure. Aquifer permeabilities similar to those of young basalt aquifers on the Earth, ~10-9 m2, can produce inferred discharges of 106 m3/s <Burr et al., 2002a> but probably require multiple floods to create the channels.

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Hydrology, Groundwater hydrology, Planetology, Solid Surface Planets, General or miscellaneous, Planetology, Solar System Objects, Mars
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Geophysical Research Letters
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