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A network of lava tubes as the origin of Labyrinthus Noctis and Valles Marineris on Mars
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2014.01.011 Bibcode: 2014JVGR..277....1L

Leone, Giovanni

The role of lava tube networks and lava channels is reassessed as the primordial stage of the volcano-erosional processes that formed the Labyrinthus Noctis-Valles Marineris system instead of a tectonic origin. The combined use of CTX, CRISM, HiRISE imagery, and MOLA profiles has provided valuable insight in the evolution of pit chains into fossae…

2014 Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
MEx 35