{{Short description|Network of river channels on Titan}} [[File:Titan Cassini radar T3 (part) - Elivagar Flumina.png|300px|thumb]]
'''Elivagar Flumina''' is a network of [[river]] channels, known as'' [[Flumen (planetary geology)|flumina]]'', located in the region around the [[Menrva (crater)|Menrva Crater]] of [[Titan (moon)|Titan]]. These channels range in length from 23 km to 210 km and are at least 120 km wide, showing signs of erosion.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/figure/262986396_fig1_Fig-1-Cassini-RADAR-image-of-Menrva-and-Elivagar-Flumina-taken-during-the-T3-fly-by|title=Fig. 1. Cassini RADAR image of Menrva and Elivagar Flumina taken during the T3 fly-by, showing the channels near Menrva and the catchment basin (highlighted in blue).|access-date=18 June 2016}}</ref><ref name ="a">{{cite journal|title=Geomorphologic mapping of the Menrva region of Titan using Cassini RADAR data|year=2011|first1=David|last1=Williams|first2=Jani|last2=Radebaugh|first3=Rosaly|last3=Lopes|author3-link=Rosaly Lopes |first4=Ellen|last4=Stofan|journal=Icarus|volume=212|issue=2|pages=744–750|bibcode=2011Icar..212..744W|doi=10.1016/j.icarus.2011.01.014}}</ref> At their mouth, an [[alluvial fan]] is present.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2013/pdf/2641.pdf|title=ALLUVIAL FANS ON TITAN REVEAL MATERIALS, PROCESSES AND REGIONAL CONDITIONS|access-date=18 June 2016|year=2013}}</ref> The Elivagar Flumina is interpreted as alluvial due to its proximity to fluvial valleys and radar backscattering.<ref>Ingo Müller-Wodarg; Caitlin A. Griffith; Emmanuel Lellouch, 2014. Titan: Interior, Surface, Atmosphere, and Space Environment. Cambridge University Press. p. 69. {{ISBN|978-0-521-19992-6}}.</ref> Geomorphic mapping of the Menrva region on Titan has provided evidence of exogenic processes such as hydrocarbon fluid channelization, or flash floods, which are believed to have formed the Flumina network.<ref name="a"/><ref>Williams, David A., et al. "Geomorphologic mapping of the Menrva region of Titan using Cassini RADAR data." Icarus212.2 (2011): 744-750.</ref>
The Elivagar Flumina is named after the [[Élivágar]], a group of poisonous ice rivers in [[Norse mythology]].<ref>Robert Brown; Jean Pierre Lebreton; Hunter Waite, 2009. Titan from Cassini-Huygens. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 508. {{ISBN|978-1-4020-9215-2}}.</ref>
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