Giant dike swarms: Earth, Venus, and Mars

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 29, Issue , 2001, Pages 489-534

  Ernst, R E ^a   Grosfils, E B ^a   Mege D ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dike; Graben; Mantle plume; Plate tectonics; Rift

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; EROSION; LEVEES; MAPPING; MORPHOLOGY; PLANETS; TECTONICS; VOLCANOES;

DIKE SWARMS;

EARTH SCIENCES;

DIKE; DIKE SWARM; GRABEN; MANTLE PLUME; PLATE TECTONICS; RIFT ZONE;

EID: 0034984969     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.29.1.489     Document Type: Article

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