
Victor R. Baker
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LOCATION: Tucson, AZ, United States
Regents Professor of Geosciences and of Planetary Sciences; University of Arizona, Tucson. Author of The Channels of Mars.
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Valley, elongate depression of the Earth’s surface. Valleys are most commonly drained by rivers and may occur in a relatively flat plain or between ranges of hills or mountains. Those valleys produced by tectonic action are called rift valleys. Very narrow, deep valleys of similar appearance are…
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