| Description | Working file, entitled 'Mars Moon 4/6/97-8/01', relating to the papers: McKenzie, D & F Nimmo, "The generation of Martian floods by melting permafrost above dykes", 'Nature' vol 397 pp231-233 (1999); McKenzie, D, "Plate tectonics on Mars? (News and Views)", 'Nature', vol 399 (1999), pp307-308.
The file notably comprises: correspondence relating to the publication process of the two papers on Martian geology, January 1998-May 1999; manuscript notes, computer generated data sets, charts and plots on dykes, gravity and petrology of Mars, the latter based on analysis of SNC meteorites, 1997-2000; data sets from the Mars Global Surveyor, 1998. Also, copies of published articles or book chapters on the geochemistry, mineralogy and sedimentology of lunar rocks and the geology of Mars, 1973-1991 [others unknown]; programme for the Royal Astronomical Meeting 'Advances in Planetary Science', held at the Geological Society, Burlington House, London, 8 January 1997 [Francis Nimmo presented a paper]. |