The northern plains of Mars are thought to have harboured an ocean more than 3.6 billion years ago. Delta deposits and river-valley termini ring the proposed seabed and define an equipotential palaeoshoreline.
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Fairén, A. Refilling the oceans of early Mars. Nature Geosci 3, 452–453 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo906
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