Figure 27: This sketch is a perspective view looking northwest at the boundary between Ophir and Aurorae Plana. To the left is Coprates Chasma and to the right Capri Chasma. It illustrates the hypothesis that the boundary between Ophir and Aurorae Plana is due to the eastern limit of the topmost strong layer (indicated by arrow, dashed lines give outline of buried strong layer). It also illustrates the hypothesis that the next most resistant layers (indicated by the brackets) observed below the topmost strong layer along the rim of Coprates Chasma is the same as the resistant sequence that forms the rim in Capri Chasma. The strong layers displayed below that are schematic.
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A version of this figure was published by Elsevier Inc. Copyright © 2005 Ross A. Beyer.