Chasma Australe, Mars: Structural Framework for a Catastrophic Outflow Origin

Icarus

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 302-312

  Anguita, Francisco ^a   Babín, Rosa ^a   Benito, Gerardo ^b   Gómez, David ^a   Collado, Ana ^a   Rice, James W ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Mars; Poles; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001635355     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1999.6294     Document Type: Article

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