In The Courts Of The Crimson Kings (2008) - Plot & Excerpts
The closest analogue in Terran geology would be the highlands on either side of the Great Rift Valley of East Africa; and the long fissure of the Valles Marineris (Martian Demotic: Tomek’a, the Long Sea) has riftlike characteristics. The rain-shadow effect of the giant volcanoes and the highland mass in general, however, also produces an unusually abrupt drop-off into extreme aridity, the condition known on Mars as the Deep Beyond. In earlier periods of Martian history, a unified global authority and slightly more humid conditions allowed irrigation to push back the fringes of the deserts. Notable features of eastern Tharsis are the great volcanoes of which the largest is Olympus Mons. Mars, The Deep Beyond Tharsis Plain, west of Dvor II-Adazar May 22, 2000 AD The land had been tending upward all the long day of pursuit as they skimmed eastward before a twenty-knot wind; now the terrain rose in high, steep dunes, sand that had walked when the storm came.
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