Amounts of crustal stretching in Valles Marineris, Mars

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 749-781

  Mège, Daniel ^a   Masson, Philippe ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

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DOI: 10.1016/0032-0633(96)00013-X     Document Type: Article

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