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Olympus Mons is the largest known volcanic construct in the Solar System; it is more than 600 km across and more than 27 km above datum. The volcano and the great scarp that bounds it have been the subject of much scientific controversy. Although it has been possible to generate an empirical model that closely resembles Olympus Mons, the dynamics of scarp formation are still unproven...

This map is one in a series of 1:500,000-scale geologic maps prepared to investigate areas on Mars of high scientific interest. The quadrangle contains the source area for Mangala Valles, one of the largest outflow channel complexes on Mars (Sharp and Mali, 1975). Preliminary mapping by Masurksy and others (1986), Simbelman (1988), and Champlan and others (1989, 1991) showed that several...

The Iapygia quadrangle, in the equatorial region of Mars just north of the Hellas basin, is mainly ancient, hilly, and cratered upland terrain. The southern one-third of the quadrangle is dominated by mountain and knobby materials representing mountains of pre-Hellas material and material related to the Hellas basin and mappable in a 500-km-wide zone circumjacent to it. The northeast...

This geologic map of Mars was compiled largely from Mariner-9-based 1:5,000,000-scale geologic maps prepared by several authors. However, many of the geologic units of the larger scale maps have been combined and revised to provide continuity of portrayal so that this map expresses our own concepts as well as those of the mappers at the larger scale.

The Margaritifer Sinus quadrangle lies within a broad north-sloping trough, the Chryse lowland, between the elevated Tharsis plateau to the west and the cratered upland to the east. The rugged, uniquely martian chaotic terrain is best developed in this quadrangle. Sinuous furrows a few kilometers wide and as much as several hundred kilometers long cover most of the quadrangle; in several...

The Systematic mapping of lava flow units in the Tharsis region has been compiled into a series of 16 maps at 1:2,000,000 scale. This work provides information on the sources and areal extent of the lava flows, on their eruptive sequences and relative ages, and on relations between the flows and geologic structure in the largest, most active tectonic and volcanic province on Mars. Some...

The map area, in the Coprates 1:2,000,000-scale quadrangle MC-18 NW lies in the heart of the Valles Marineris trough system. The western part of Ophir Planum (36,660 km2) occupies 40 percent of the map areas; parts of Candor, Melas, and Coprates Chasmata make up the remainder. The troughs contain distinctive landslide deposits, normal faults, possible young volcanic rocks, and layered...

The polar deposits on Mars are of great interest because they probably record martian climate variations (Thomas and others, 1992). The area shown on this map includes polar layered deposits with distinct low-albedo features and a sharp boundary between the layered deposits and the moderately cratered unit that forms the floor of Chasma Australe. Detailed mapping of this quadrangle was...

Material exposed on the surface of the moon is heterogeneous. The albedo and other physical characteristics that have been determined with the use of optical and radio telescopes vary from one part of the moon to another, and the variations are patially correlated with differences in topography . Discontinuities in the areal variation permit the surfaces material to be divided into map...

The Macrobius quadrangle is in the northeast quadrant of the Moon's near side. Although predominantly a highland area centered around the Taurus Mountains (Montes Taurus), it is bounded by three major mare-filled basins: Tranquillitatis, the oldest, to the south; Serenitatis to the west; and Crisium on the east. Most of the geologic units within the quadrangle have been profoundly...

The multi-ringed Nectaris basin (Hartmann and Kuiper, 1962) dominates the Fracastorius quadrangle. The basin is 840 km across as measured from the outermost ring and lies athwart four quadrangles. Fracastorius, the southeastern quadrangle, straddles the three rings of the basin (fig. 1). In this quadrangle most pre-Imbrian structures and many depositions were formed by the Nectaris...

The Aristoteles quadrangle, located on the northeastern periphery of the Imbrium basin on the near side of the Moon, consist of four physiographic provinces: a northern mountainous belt, chiefly of lineated crater rims and other lineated terra; a middle-northern belt covered by mare material of Mare Frigoris; and a southern belt composed of mountainous material of diverse characteristics...