Hemispheres apart: The crustal dichotomy on Mars

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 35, Issue , 2007, Pages 621-652

  Watters, Thomas R ^a   McGovern, Patrick J ^b   Irwin III, Rossman P ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Crustal thickness; Geology; Gravity; Tectonics; Topography

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATION; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; TOPOGRAPHY; VOLCANOES;

CRUSTAL DICHOTOMY; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; HEMISPHERIC DICHOTOMY; MANTLE;

PLANETS;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; GRAVITY; MANTLE CONVECTION; MARS; OVERTURN; PLATE TECTONICS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

EID: 34250641439     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.35.031306.140220     Document Type: Article

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