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Scientific paper
Apr 1984
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1984pggp.rept..110w&link_type=abstract
In NASA. Washington Rept. of Planetary Geol. Program, 1983 p 110-112 (SEE N84-23431 13-91)
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Lunar Geology, Mars (Planet), Mars Craters, Mars Surface, Estimates, Lithosphere, Structural Basins, Topography
Scientific paper
Why the lowlands of Mars are concentrated in the Northern Hemisphere and the highlands in the Southern Hemisphere is probably the most fundamental unsolved problem in martian geology. No explanation that accounts both for this asymmetric distribution and for the isostatic equilibrium across the scarp or sloping transition zone dividing the two provinces has been generally accepted; thinning of the lithosphere in the northern hemisphere by internal processes has been suggested. Because other lowland-highland distributions on Mars, Moon, and Mercury are controlled by impact basins, it is proposed that a giant basin formed early in Mars' history has caused the martian hemispheric dichotomy as well.
Squyres Steve W.
Wilhelms Don E.
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