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<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
  <dc:contributor>James M. Dohm</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>James R. Zimbelman</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>David H. Scott</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>1998</dc:date>
  <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="TextRun SCXW260692515 BCX8" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260692515 BCX8"&gt;The geologic map shows lava flows and fan-shaped deposits on Pavonis Mons, the central of three large shield volcanoes (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260692515 BCX8"&gt;Arsia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260692515 BCX8"&gt;, Pavonis, and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260692515 BCX8"&gt;Ascr&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260692515 BCX8"&gt;aeus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260692515 BCX8"&gt; Montes) that form the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260692515 BCX8"&gt;Tharsis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260692515 BCX8"&gt; Montes volcanic chain. The volcanoes lie along the crest of a regional northeast-trending &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260692515 BCX8"&gt;rise that extends more than 3,000 km across the western equatorial region of Mars (fig. 1).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260692515 BCX8"&gt; The volcanic history of Pavonis Mons is &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="AdvancedProofingIssue SCXW260692515 BCX8"&gt;similar to&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260692515 BCX8"&gt; that of other volcanoes in the western equatorial region of Mars (Scott and others, 1981&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260692515 BCX8"&gt;a-c; Scott and Tanaka, 1981, 1986; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260692515 BCX8"&gt;Zimbelman&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260692515 BCX8"&gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260692515 BCX8"&gt;Edgett&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260692515 BCX8"&gt;, 1992). Previous geologic mapping of this region &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260692515 BCX8"&gt;(Scott and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260692515 BCX8"&gt;others, 1981a-c; Scott and Tanaka, 1981, 1986) shows six major lava flows that were &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260692515 BCX8"&gt;extruded&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260692515 BCX8"&gt; from the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260692515 BCX8"&gt;Tharsis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260692515 BCX8"&gt; volcanoes during the Early Hes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260692515 BCX8"&gt;perian to Late Amazonian Epochs; four of these lava flow members are present in the map area. On the northwest flank of Pavonis Mons, broad, lobate, fan-shaped deposits form a surficial cover &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="AdvancedProofingIssue SCXW260692515 BCX8"&gt;similar to&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260692515 BCX8"&gt; other fan-shaped deposits on the northwest flanks of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260692515 BCX8"&gt;Arsia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260692515 BCX8"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="SpellingError SCXW260692515 BCX8"&gt;Arcaeus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260692515 BCX8"&gt;, and (to a lesser degree) Olympus Mons. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="AdvancedProofingIssue SCXW260692515 BCX8"&gt;Similar to&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260692515 BCX8"&gt; those of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260692515 BCX8"&gt;Arsia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260692515 BCX8"&gt; Mons&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260692515 BCX8"&gt;, the fan-shaped deposits of Pavonis Mons consists of several facies whose origins are attributed to glaciation, mass wasting, and pyroclastic volcanism origins.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
  <dc:format>application/pdf</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>10.3133/i2561</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>U.S. Geological Survey</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>Geologic map of Pavonis Mons Volcano, Mars</dc:title>
  <dc:type>reports</dc:type>
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