Early transient superplumes and the origin of the Martian crustal dichotomy

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 111, Issue 10, 2006, Pages

  Ke, Y ^a   Solomatov, V S ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE PLUME; MARS; PLANETARY LANDFORM;

EID: 33845664056     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JE002631     Document Type: Article

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