Tharsis-sourced relatively dust-free lavas and their possible relationship to Martian meteorites

Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

Volumn 185, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 103-115

  Lang, Nicholas P ^a   Tornabene, Livio L ^b   McSween Jr , Harry Y ^a   Christensen, Philip R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arsia Mons; basaltic shergottites; dust free lava flows; SNCs; Tharsis

Indexed keywords

ARSIA MONS; BASALTIC SHERGOTTITES; COMPLEX MIXTURE; DATA SETS; FLOW SURFACES; HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING; IN-SITU; LASER ALTIMETER; LAUNCH SITES; LAVA FLOWS; MARTIAN METEORITES; MINERAL COMPOSITION; SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS; SNCS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTROSCOPIC CHARACTERISTICS; SURFACE DEPOSITS; THARSIS; THERMAL EMISSION IMAGING SYSTEM; THERMAL EMISSION SPECTROMETERS;

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; BASALT; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DUST; LAUNCHING; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; MINERALS; MINING; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SILICATE MINERALS; SURFACES; VOLCANOES;

METEORITES;

LAVA FLOW; MARS; PLANETARY SATELLITE; PLANETARY SURFACE; SNC METEORITE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; VOLCANO;

EID: 67650451095     PISSN: 03770273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2008.12.014     Document Type: Article

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