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Schultz & Tanaka 1994
Schultz, R.A. and Tanaka, K.L. (1994). Lithospheric-scale buckling and thrust structures on Mars: The Coprates rise and south Tharsis ridge belt. Journal of Geophysical Research 99: doi: 10.1029/94JE00277. issn: 0148-0227.

Detailed photogeologic mapping documents for the first time the deformation sequence of the Coprates rise. Materials of Middle Noachian through perhaps Early Hesperian age were involved in the horizontal shortening of crustal and lithospheric rocks that produced uplift and asymmetric, east-vergent folding of these layers during the Late Noachian and perhaps Early Hesperian. Previous suggestions of normal faulting as the deforming mechanism are not supported by the new mapping or by dislocation models of rise topography. The most likely mechanism for producing the Coprates rise is folding due to buckling instability and perhaps thrust faulting. An extensive ridge belt concentric to south Tharsis is defined by a newly recognized system of approximately coeval long-wavelength topographic ridges and swales that include the Coprates rise. Horizontal shortening of crust and lithosphere is manifested by periodically spaced structures at two different scales: wrinkle ridges spaced tens of kilometers apart and the south Tharsis system of ridges spaced hundreds of kilometers apart. Both types of structures may be associated with early volcanotectonic activity and crustal thickening in south Tharsis. These and other large ridges indicate that lithospheric buckling and thrust faulting may have been common on early Mars. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1994

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Planetology, Solid Surface Planets, Tectonics, Tectonophysics, Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle—general, Tectonophysics, Rheology—general
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Journal of Geophysical Research
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