Impact-Induced Subduction and Slab Rollback for the Tectonic Origin of the Tharsis Rise on Mars

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Mar 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011lpi....42.1525y&link_type=abstract

42nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, held March 7–11, 2011 at The Woodlands, Texas. LPI Contribution No. 1608, p.1525

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To explain Tharsis evolution, I propose that its volcanism and graben
development were induced by slab rollback of a southeast-dipping plate.
Subduction was initiated near Syria Planum by early Hesperian volcanic
flooding, possibly triggered by the Argyre impact.

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