The morphologies of volcanic landforms at Central Elysium Planitia: Evidence for recent and fluid lavas on Mars

Icarus

Volumn 200, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 39-51

  Vaucher, J ^a   Baratoux, D ^a   Toplis, M J ^a   Pinet, P ^a   Mangold, N ^b   Kurita, K ^c  

^a IRAP   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mars; Volcanism

Indexed keywords

EID: 60449090695     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.11.005     Document Type: Article

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