Rainfall on Noachian Mars: Nature, timing, and influence on geologic processes and climate history

AM Palumbo, JW Head, L Wilson - Icarus, 2020 - Elsevier
… We conclude that (1) if rainfall occurred on early Mars, … throughout the Noachian, and (2)
in contrast to previous findings, … the geomorphic evidence for rainfall in the Noachian and the …

Geologic history of Mars

MH Carr, JW Head III - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2010 - Elsevier
… years, although geomorphic evidence of the volcanism during these early times has been …
is evidence that Tharsis had mostly accumulated by the end of the Noachian, 3.7 Gyr ago (see …

The climate of early Mars

RD Wordsworth - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Noachian and early Hesperian periods 3–4 Ga. The low solar flux received by Mars in its
first … highlights of the geologic evidence for an altered climate on early Mars, focusing on the …

Sequence and timing of conditions on early Mars

CI Fassett, JW Head - Icarus, 2011 - Elsevier
later in Mars history: a 60% (H) and 72% (N) chance of at least one crater 750 km or larger
since the Noachian/… are predominantly in Noachian terrains, evidence that demonstrates that …

Evolution of escarpments, pediments, and plains in the Noachian highlands of Mars

JC Cawley, RP Irwin III - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
… with older crater rims and Early Noachian impact-… evidence for a thick, widespread eolian
mantle in the study areas. The Mountain, Intercrater 1, and Intercrater 2 units show no evidence

Early Mars hydrology: 2. Hydrological evolution in the Noachian and Hesperian epochs

JC Andrews‐Hanna, KW Lewis - Journal of Geophysical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
… from Mars over time is supported by both geomorphic evidence for a wetter surface on early
Mars and isotopic evidence for … We first generate a simplified scenario for the evolution of the …

Constraints on the Noachian paleoclimate of the Martian highlands from landscape evolution modeling

Y Matsubara, AD Howard… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
… Many lines of evidence indicate that Noachian Mars was warmer … Older Noachian craters
are much more degraded with … used to constrain the early hydrologic cycle on Mars in this study…

Geologic constraints on early Mars climate

ES Kite - Space Science Reviews, 2019 - Springer
… (2) There is no single Early Mars climate problem: the traces of … formed earlier in Mars
history, rivers that formed later in Mars … This first river-forming period (Early/Middle Noachian) is …

Origin of the Martian global dichotomy by crustal thinning in the late Noachian or early Hesperian

GE McGill, AM Dimitriou - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 1990 - Wiley Online Library
Evidence of several types suggests that there was a period … late Noachian or early Hesperian,
and there is good evidenceNoachian or in the early Hesperian than it was earlier or later. …

Age and origin of the lowlands of Mars

AG Fairén, JM Dohm - Icarus, 2004 - Elsevier
… in the earliest geological evolution of Mars (Early perhaps into Middle Noachian) requires
… Although as of this writing, there is no definitive evidence for ancient martian plate tectonism…