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Published online 20 June 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/4531153a
When water gushed on Mars
Could crevasses in the ice have been caused by a recent volcanic eruption?
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"Fishbaugh, on the other hand, doesn’t think that the chasm could have been eroded that quickly..." A wall of water 200m high and 35km wide could cause tremendous erosion in just a few hours. See http://preview.tinyurl.com/18r