Deucalionis Regio, Mars: Evidence for a new type of immobile weathered soil unit

Icarus

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 296-307

  Merényi, Erzsébet ^a   Edgett, Kenneth S ^b   Singer, Robert B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0030295780     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1996.0205     Document Type: Article

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