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An overview of sedimentary volcanism on Mars
Institute of Geophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Boční II/1401, 141 31 Prague, Czech Republic
Dorothy Oehler
Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, USA
Adriano Mazzini
Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, 0371, Oslo, Norway
Ernst Hauber
Institute of Planetary Research, DLR, Rutherfordstr. 2, 12489 Berlin, Germany
Goro Komatsu
International Research School of Planetary Sciences, Università d'Annunzio, Viale Pindaro 42, 65127 Pescara, Italy
Giuseppe Etiope
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione Roma 2, Rome, Italy
Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, Babes Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Vojtěch Cuřín
Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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The aim of this review is to summarise the current knowledge about mud-volcano-like structures on Mars, address critical aspects of the process of sedimentary volcanism, identify key open questions, and point to areas where further research is needed to understand this phenomenon and its importance in the Red Planet's geological evolution.
The aim of this review is to summarise the current knowledge about mud-volcano-like structures...
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