Origin of the martian dichotomy and Tharsis from a giant impact causing massive magmatism

Icarus

Volumn 215, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 346-357

  Golabek, Gregor J ^a,b   Keller, Tobias ^a   Gerya, Taras V ^a   Zhu, Guizhi ^a   Tackley, Paul J ^a   Connolly, James A D ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Geophysics; Mars; Planetary dynamics; Planetary formation

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052030257     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2011.06.012     Document Type: Article

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