The Huygens-Hellas giant dike system on Mars: Implications for Late Noachian-Early Hesperian volcanic resurfacing and climatic evolution

Geology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 285-288

  Head, J W ^a   Wilson, L ^b   Dickson, J ^a   Neukum, G ^c  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dike; Eruptions; Hesperian; Magma; Mars; Noachian

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC EVOLUTION; SOLIDIFIED MAGMA-FILLED CRACKS; SUBSURFACE DIKES; VOLCANIC RESURFACING; ERUPTIONS; HESPERIAN; MAGMA; MARS; NOACHIAN;

CRACKS; EROSION; LANDFORMS; LEVEES; MOLTEN MATERIALS; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES; BASALT; GEOLOGY;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES;

MAGMATISM; MARS; DIKE; EMPLACEMENT; FLOOD BASALT; MAGMA; SUBLIMATION; TERRAIN; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANIC GAS;

HESPERIA;

EID: 33645726428     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G22163.1     Document Type: Article

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