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Water and the Martian landscape - Coggle Diagram
Water and the Martian landscape
Martian Geomorphology related to Water
Landforms indicative of ground ice & permafrost
tributraries and channels
Lakes
Glacial ice
Valleys
Martian Hydrological cycle
Transient cool & wet state
Transient oceans and precipitation leads to erosion and weathering
Transient precipitation leads to the formation of glaciers
Transient precipitation leads to increased groundwater stores
Long term steady state
Cold, dry atmosphere
negligible weathering & erosion
Large ground ice sheets
groundwater stores beneath the surface
Cataclysmic episode
Volcanic heating and eruption spews gases into the atmosphere
Switches from Long term steady state to transient cool & wet state
these gases form condensation nuclei in the atmosphere
Volcanic gases increase greenhouse effect = warming the planet