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Geologic map of the Casius Quadrangle of Mars

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1978-01-01

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R. Greeley, and J. E. Guest, 19780101, Geologic map of the Casius Quadrangle of Mars: , https://doi.org/10.5066/P9SIP5LL.

Summary

The Casius quadrangle (30 degrees N to 65 degrees N lat; 240 degrees W to 300 degrees W long) is one of the northern tier of Lambert conformal sheets of the Mars Atlas. It consists of four distinctive physiographic regions: 1) part of the northern cratered plain which forms an incomplete annulus around the north polar region, 2) smooth lowland plains of Utopia Planitia across the central and southwestern part of the map, 3) mountainous terrain, in the Nilosyrtis Mensae region south of the lowland plains, consisting of distinct mountains with hummocky surfaces, and 4) cratered plateau in the southwest part of the map, forming the northern part of a large complex cratered region in the mid-latitudes of Mars. In the Casius quadrangle, [...]

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Digitized 1:5,000,000-scale geologic map of the Casius Quadrangle of Mars. Oringinally mapped on Mariner 9 imagery. The map was imported into ArcMap and georeferenced to the Mars THEMIS basemap. Contacts and geologic units were digitized and attributed based on type and unit name.

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