PLANETARY SCIENCE Mars's rotating shell

被引：1
作者：
Nimmo, Francis [1 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Calif Santa Cruz, Dept Earth & Planetary Sci, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA
来源：
NATURE GEOSCIENCE | 2009年 / 2卷 / 01期
关键词：
MANTLE CONVECTION; MODEL;
D O I：
10.1038/ngeo401
中图分类号：
P [天文学、地球科学];
学科分类号：
07 ;
摘要：
Volcanism in the enormous Tharsis region on Mars migrated from south to north. Numerical modelling suggests that this migration as well as the current location of the region can be explained by net rotation of the lithosphere relative to the mantle.
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