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Sets of typically overlapping clawlike or curved ridged deposits on Mars interpreted to be formed by retreating cold-based glaciers.

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“Multiple laterally extensive, arcuate and parallel ridges on both well-preserved lava flows and (Head and Marchant 2003). Ridges are ~100–250 m wide. They form broad, clawlike (Garvin et al. 2006) or arcuate, or linear ridges (Figs. 1, 2, and 3), occurring in parallel and overlapping loops (Kreslavsky and Head 2011).

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Ridged deposits in a central peak crater (Garvin et al. 2006) at 70.3°N, 266.5°E. CTX T01_000876_2505_XI_70N093W (NASA/JPL/MSSS)

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Hargitai, H. (2014). Arcuate Ridge Set. In: Encyclopedia of Planetary Landforms. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9213-9_532-1

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