Investigation of crater "saturation" using spatial statistics

Icarus

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 67-82

  Squyres, Steven W ^a   Howell, Colin ^a,c   Liu, Michael C ^a,d   Lissauer, Jack J ^b  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0030637379     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1996.5560     Document Type: Article

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