Scaling impact melting and crater dimensions:Implications for the lunar cratering record

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 889-912

  Cintala, Mark J ^a   Grieve, Richard A F ^a  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 0000342367     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1998.tb01695.x     Document Type: Article

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