Mass wasting and ground collapse in terrains of volatile-rich deposits as a solar system-wide geological process: The pre-Galileo view

Icarus

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 63-78

  Moore, Jeffrey M ^a   Mellon, Michael T ^a   Zent, Aaron P ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 0030194474     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1996.0109     Document Type: Article

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