Inversion of crater morphometric data to gain insight on the cratering process

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 131-143

  Herrick, Robert R ^a   Lyons, Suzanne N ^b,c  

^a LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRATER MORPHOMETRY; CRATERING PROCESS; DATA INVERSION;

EID: 0031971956     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1998.tb01615.x     Document Type: Article

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