Late-stage flood lavas in the Elysium region, Mars

Details Late-stage flood lavas in the Elysium region, Mars Late-stage flood lavas in the Elysium region, Mars

May 1987

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987pggp.rept..336p&link_type=abstract

In NASA, Washington, Reports of Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program, 1986 p 336-338 (SEE N87-23341 16-91)

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Flood Plains, Lava, Mars Craters, Mars Surface, Terrain Analysis, Albedo, Geochronology, Planetary Evolution, Planetary Mapping, Spatial Distribution

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In the southeastern part of the Elysium region is a unit that exhibits little texture and a generally low albedo and that has a very low crater frequency. This unit has been mapped as smooth plains material and previously interpreted as an eolian deposit on the basis of Mariner 9 images. More recently, the unit was mapped as material deposited during a channeling episode. The author interprets the smooth plains unit as being a volcanic deposit composed of low viscosity lava flows: both flood lavas and individual flows. The reasons for these conclusions are given and briefly discussed.

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