The cause for the north-south orientation of the crustal dichotomy and the equatorial location of Tharsis on Mars

Icarus

Volumn 190, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 24-31

  Roberts, James H ^a   Zhong, Shijie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Geophysics; Mars; Rotational dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547741229     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2007.03.002     Document Type: Article

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