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AmazonisPlanitia: The role of geologically recent volcanism and sedimentation in the formation of the smoothest plains on Mars
AmazonisPlanitia, located between the two main volcanic provinces on Mars (Tharsis and Elysium), is characterized by extremely smooth topography at several scale lengths, as smooth as oceanic abyssal plains topography on Earth.
Citation: Fuller, E., and J. Head III (2002), AmazonisPlanitia: The role of geologically recent volcanism and sedimentation in the formation of the smoothest plains on Mars, J.
The central part, which is dominated by light-colored, relatively smooth to hummocky plains of AmazonisPlanitia, is partly bounded to the east by the western flank of the largest known volcano in the solar system, Olympus Mons, and its associated aureole deposits.
Moderately cratered knobby terrain is west of the plains of AmazonisPlanitia.
The highlands are separated from the northern plains of ElysiumPlanitia by a highly dissected, discontinuous northwest trending scarp.
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