Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Low Shield Volcano (Mars)

  • Living reference work entry
  • First Online:
Encyclopedia of Planetary Landforms

  • 60 Accesses

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Baptista AR, Mangold N, Ansan V, Baratoux D, Lognonné P, Alves EI, Williams DA, Bleacher JE, Masson P, Neukum G (2008) A swarm of small shield volcanoes on Syria Planum, Mars. J Geophys Res 113(E9):19. CiteID E09010

    Google Scholar 

  • Baratoux D, Pinet P, Toplis MJ, Mangold N, Greeley R, Baptista AR (2009) Shape, rheology and emplacement times of small martian shield volcanoes. J Volcanol Geotherm Res 185:47–68

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bleacher JE, Greeley R, Williams DA, Cave SR, Neukum G (2007) Trends in effusive style at the Tharsis Montes, Mars, and implications for the development of the Tharsis province. J Geophys Res 112, E09005. doi:10.1029/2006JE002873

    Google Scholar 

  • Carr MH, Greeley R, Blasius KR, Guest JE, Murray JB (1977) Some martian volcanic features as viewed from Viking orbiters. J Geophys Res 82:3985–4015

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Florensky CP, Basilevsky AT (1980) The surface of Mars (according to photoexperiments of Mars-4 and 5 space probes). (Poverhnost’ Marsa [po dannym fotoeksperimenta s AMS Mars-4 i 5]). Nauka, Moscow, pp 107–147. In Russian

    Google Scholar 

  • Greeley R (1977) Basaltic “plains” volcanism. In: Greeley R, King JS (eds) Volcanism of the Eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho: a comparative planetary geology guidebook. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, DC, pp 24–44

    Google Scholar 

  • Greeley R (1982a) The Snake River Plain, Idaho: representative of a new category of volcanism. J Geophys Res 87:2705–2712

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Greeley R (1982b) The style of Basaltic volcanism in the Eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho. In: Bonichsen B, Breckenridge RM (eds) Cenozoic geology of Idaho. Idaho Bureau of Mines and Geology Bulletin, vol 26. pp 407–421

    Google Scholar 

  • Hauber E, Bleacher J, Gwinner K, Williams D, Greeley R (2009) The topography and morphology of low shields and associated landforms of plains volcanism in the Tharsis region of Mars. J Volcanol Geotherm Res 185:69–95

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hauber E, Brož P, Jagert F (2010) Plains volcanism on Mars: ages and rheology of lavas. 41st Lunar Planet Sci Conf, abstract #1298, Houston

    Google Scholar 

  • Head JW, Crumpler LS, Aubele JC, Guest JE, Saunders RS (1992) Venus volcanism: classification of volcanic features and structures, associations, and global distribution from Magellan data. J Geophys Res 97:13,153–13,197

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kreslavsky MA, Head JW (1999) Morphometry of small shield volcanoes on Venus: implication for the thickness of regional plains. J Geophys Res 104:18,925–18,932

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kuntz MA, Covington HR, Schorr LJ (1992) Regional geology of eastern Idaho and western Wyoming. Geological Society of America Memoir, pp 227–267

    Google Scholar 

  • Macdonald GA (1972) Volcanoes. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs

    Google Scholar 

  • Malin MC, Edgett KS (2001) Mars global surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera: interplanetary cruise through primary mission. J Geophys Res 106(E10):23429–23570. doi:10.1029/2000JE001455

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • McSween HY Jr, Taylor GJ, Wyatt MB (2009) Elemental composition of the Martian crust. Science 324(5928):736–739. doi:10.1126/science.1165871

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Mouginis-Mark PJ, Christensen PR (2005) New observations of volcanic features on Mars from the THEMIS instrument. J Geophys Res 110, E08007. doi:10.1029/2005JE002421

    Google Scholar 

  • Noe-Nygaard A (1968) On extrusion forms in plateau basalts. Shield volcanoes of “scutulum” type. Visindafelag Islendinga, Anniversary volume, Reykjavik, pp. 10–13

    Google Scholar 

  • Pike RJ (1978) Volcanoes on the inner planets: some preliminary comparisons of gross topography. Lunar Planet Sci Conf 9:3239–3273, Houston

    Google Scholar 

  • Plescia JB (1981) The Tempe volcanic province of Mars and comparisons with the Snake River Plains of Idaho. Icarus 45:586–601

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Plescia J (2003) Cerberus Fossae, Elysium, Mars: a source for lava and water. Icarus 164:79–95

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Plescia JB, Saunders RS (1982) Tectonic history of the Tharsis region. Mars J Geophys Res 87(B12):9775–9791. doi:10.1029/JB087iB12p09775

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Schupack BB, Sakimoto SEH (2006) Eruption styles of small martian shield volcanoes and indications of postflow tectonic deformation on Syria Planum, from MOLA, TES, and THEMIS data. Lunar Planet Sci XXXVII, abstract #1157, Houston

    Google Scholar 

  • Vaucher J, Baratoux D, Toplis MJ, Pinet P, Mangold N, Kurita K (2009) The morphologies of volcanic landforms at Central Elysium Planitia: evidence for recent and fluid lavas on Mars. Icarus 1:39–51

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wood CA (1979) Monogenetic volcanoes of the terrestrial planets. Proc Lunar Planet Sci 10:2815–2840, Houston

    Google Scholar 

  • Zimbelman JR, Edgett KS (1992) The Tharsis Montes, Mars: comparison of volcanic and modified landforms. Proc Lunar Planet Sci 22:31–44, Houston

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Geosciences, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID, USA

    Scott S. Hughes

Authors
  1. Scott S. Hughes
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Scott S. Hughes .

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2014 Springer Science+Business Media New York

About this entry

Cite this entry

Hughes, S.S. (2014). Low Shield Volcano (Mars). In: Encyclopedia of Planetary Landforms. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9213-9_445-1

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9213-9_445-1

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, New York, NY

  • Online ISBN: 978-1-4614-9213-9

  • eBook Packages: Springer Reference Earth and Environm. ScienceReference Module Physical and Materials ScienceReference Module Earth and Environmental Sciences

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation