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  1. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA

    Alexandra Lefort

  2. Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, USA

    Rebecca Williams

  3. Earth and Space Physics, Department of Physics, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

    Jarmo Korteniemi

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Lefort, A., Williams, R., Korteniemi, J. (2014). Inverted channel. In: Encyclopedia of Planetary Landforms. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9213-9_202-1

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