On the support of the Tharsis Rise on Mars

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 214, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 1-9

  Zhong, Shijie ^a   Roberts, James H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Gravity and topography anomalies; Loading models; Mars; Tharsis Rise

Indexed keywords

GEOID; GRAVITY ANOMALY; MARS; TOPOGRAPHY; VOLCANISM;

EID: 0141595938     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00384-4     Document Type: Article

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