Voluminous volcanism on early mars revealed in valles marineris

Nature

Volumn 397, Issue 6720, 1999, Pages 584-586

  McEwen, Alfred S ^a   Malin, Michael C ^b   Carr, Michael H ^c   Hartmann, William K ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b MALIN SPACE SCIENCE SYSTEMS   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARS; PLANETARY EVOLUTION; VOLCANISM;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CAMERA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; SPACE FLIGHT; VOLCANO;

EID: 0033580266     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/17539     Document Type: Article

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