title: Lunar rivers.
abstract: Mature meanders in lunar sinuous rills strongly suggests that the rills are features of surface erosion by water. Such erosion could occur under a pressurizing ice cover in the absence of a lunar atmosphere. Water, outgassed from the lunar interior and trapped beneath a layer of permafrost, could be released by a meteoritic impact and overflow the crater to form an ice-covered river. A sinuous rill could be eroded in about 100 years.
authors.forename: R E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Lingenfelter
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Peale
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Schubert