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Flooded Valley (Titan)

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Valley-like features on Titan interpreted to be flooded from adjacent liquid body.

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Sinuous extensions or dendritic or branching margins of closed, radar-dark features on Titan (Stofan et al. 2007; Hayes et al. 2008; Fig. 1).

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A variety of flooded valley morphologies on Titan, from T29 RADAR SAR swath (NASA/JPL/Cassini RADAR team). (a) Southern part of Punga Mare, showing submerged channel and inundated central peak crater-like feature (arrow) (Wasiak et al. 2013), (b) Northern part of Ligeia Mare

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Hargitai, H. (2014). Flooded Valley (Titan). In: Encyclopedia of Planetary Landforms. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9213-9_610-1

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