Silica deposits in the Nili Patera caldera on the Syrtis Major volcanic complex on Mars

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 838-841

  Skok, J R ^a   Mustard, J F ^a   Ehlmann, B L ^a   Milliken, R E ^b   Murchie, S L ^c  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Notre Dame   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; LEACHING; MARS; PH; SILICEOUS DEPOSIT; VOLCANIC ASH;

HESPERIA; PATERA; PHYMATA;

EID: 78649888754     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo990     Document Type: Article

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