- Eridania Lake
Eridania Lake is a theorized ancient lake on Mars with a surface area of roughly 1.1 million square kilometers. It is located at the source of the
Ma'adim Vallis outflow channel. [cite journal| journal=Science| month= 21 June| year= 2002| volume=296| issue= 5576| pages= 2209–2212| doi=10.1126/science.1071143| title=A Large Paleolake Basin at the Head of Ma'adim Vallis, Mars| last=Rossman | first=P. Irwin III| coauthors= Ted A. Maxwell, Alan D. Howard, Robert A. Craddock, David W. Leverington| url=http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/296/5576/2209] As Eridania Lake dried out in the lateNoachian epoch it divided into a series of smaller lakes. [cite journal | title=The Geology of Atlantis Basin, Mars, and Its Astrobiological Interest| last=de Pablo| first= M. A.| coauthors=Fairén, A. G.; Márquez, A.| journal=35thLunar and Planetary Science Conference , March 15-19, 2004, League City, Texas| id= abstract no.1223| month=March 3| year=2004| url=http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2004/pdf/1223.pdf]References
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