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Nature Geoscience 2, 7 - 8 (2009)
doi:10.1038/ngeo401

Subject Category: Planetary science

Planetary Science: Mars's rotating shell

Francis Nimmo1

  1. Francis Nimmo is in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA.
    e-mail: fnimmo@es.ucsc.edu


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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