I was looking at some of the HiRise images around Cyd*nia. Some of the mesa's are in the Volcanic category. What are the current prevailing theories for how these mesa's and surrounding terrain were formed ? For example here is one ... http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/PSP_010143_2215

I hope this is not too much of a basic question for this site, but I am unfamiliar with the places to go hunting for papers and Google turns up the usual "noise" (I think you can guess what I mean) about Cyd*nia.

Any help appreciated. I want to get to know more about what is an interesting region to me.

A boolean operator might help, something like "cyd*nia but not [off-topic proper name]." Google advanced search offers something like that, but I've never used it.

Or more to the point, there are databases which contain citations to virtually all modern papers on planetary science. You can usually pull down at least an abstract for free, and sometimes the full text of the paper as well. Otherwise you take the citation to your nearby university library. I figured this out a few years ago, but misremember the details. I think that adsabs.harvard.edu/ was one source that was particularly generous with full texts, but there were others as well. I was using these resources for tracking down specific papers I'd read about, so I don't know how useful they are for broad subject matter searches.

TTT

Some searches used including words such as "Cyd*nia planetary photojournal" did pull up this (from NASA):
http://www.nasaimages.org/luna/servlet/det...Cydonia-Picture

And a Google Scholar search ("Cyd*nia formation) pulled up this helpful discussion from the ESA Mars Express website:
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/SEM09F8LURE_0.html

And a discussion written in 1999 from MOC data (corresponding PDF no longer availalbe):
http://66.102.1.104/scholar?hl=en&lr=&...donia+formation

And here is a recent Icarus article (Google Scholar search: "Cyd*nia Neukum") that might be helpful:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=A...6b3f2fc383e0d02

-Mike

Yikes, you are right! Even Google Scholar returns some scary items off the bat....

And a recent (2005) JGR paper:
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2005/2004JE002297.shtml

And an Earth Moon and Planets paper (can get a teaser one page preview):
http://www.springerlink.com/content/n605168567j62134/

And yes, even Wikipedia can be a useful start point for scientific references (some links not so good):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cydonia_Mensae

-Mike

Thanks !

That got me through the noise to Lake Bonneville ... as cited in the JPL paper (Parker
et al., 1993). One of the possible Earth analogs of this region.