Massive Ice Sheet Basal Melting Triggered by Atmospheric Collapse on Mars, Leading to Formation of an Overtopped, Ice‐Covered Argyre Basin Paleolake Fed by 1,000‐km Rivers

Near the Noachian‐Hesperian boundary (∼3.6 billion years ago), most of Mars' near‐surface water inventory was likely frozen in large southern ice sheets and Mars' CO2 atmosphere had eroded enough that it began to periodically collapse. Here, I report model results showing that thermal blan...

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