Recent flood lavas in the Elysium region of Mars

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Dec 1990

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990icar...88..465p&link_type=abstract

Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035), vol. 88, Dec. 1990, p. 465-490.

Physics

79

Lava, Mars Craters, Mars Surface, Volcanology, Morphology, Planetary Geology, Planetary Mapping

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A volcanic origin is presently suggested for the 'Cerberus Formation' region of smooth plains in the southeastern Elysium region of Mars, on the basis of its surface morphology, lobate edges, vents, and an embayment relation of the unit with adjacent, older units. The low viscosity lavas that filled a topographic depression in southeastern Elysium subsequently flowed into western Amazonic Planitia via channels formed by an earlier fluvial episode. A young, upper Amazonian dating is indicated by crater frequencies and stratigraphic relations, implying that large-scale eruptions of low-viscosity lava were still possible late in Martian history.

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