Tropical mountain glaciers on Mars: Altitude-dependence of ice accumulation, accumulation conditions, formation times, glacier dynamics, and implications for planetary spin-axis/orbital history
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a Climate Change Institute and Department of Computer Science, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, USA b Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University, Box 1846, 324 Brook Street, Providence, RI 02912, USA c Department of Earth Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA d Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, Université Paris 6, BP99, 75252 Paris cedex 05, France
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