Lunar Multiring Basins and the Cratering Process

Icarus

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 246-259

  Wieczorek, Mark A ^a   Phillips, Roger J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cratering; Impact processes; Moon

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000123453     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1999.6102     Document Type: Article

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