Ancient heat flow and crustal thickness at Warrego rise, Thaumasia highlands, Mars: Implications for a stratified crust

Icarus

Volumn 203, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 47-57

  Ruiz, Javierz ^a   Williams, Jean Pierre ^b   Dohm, James M ^c   Fernández, Carlos ^d   López, Valle ^e  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HUELVA   (Spain)

^e INSTITUTO ESPAÑOL DE OCEANOGRAFÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Interior; Mars; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

EID: 68749116187     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.05.008     Document Type: Article

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