Title: Graben Formation and Dike Emplacement on Earth and Other Planets
Abstract: INTRODUCTION Dike emplacement has become an increasingly popular means to form grabens radiating from a volcanic centre in the recent planetary geology literature, on Venus [1-3] and on Mars [4-8]. The Tharsis example is used to clarify two important issues that have been scarcely discussed: what evidence of dike emplacement beneath the grabens in the examples mentioned in these papers can be found; and if dikes do actually exist beneath these grabens, what is the role of magma pressure and that of remote stress in graben initiation and development.
Publication Year: 1997
Publication Date: 1997-03-01
Language: en
Type: article
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