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Clinoforms in Melas Chasma
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In this image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a group of steeply inclined light-toned layers is bounded above and below by unconformities (sudden or irregular changes from one deposit to another) that indicate a "break" where erosion of pre-existing layers was taking place at a higher rate than deposition of new materials. The layered deposits in Melas Basin may have been deposited during the growth of a delta complex.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineClinoforms in Melas Chasma. NASA/JPL, 2017-04-10. Public domain. ID: PIA21580.
