The role of extensional instability in creating Ganymede grooved terrain: Insights from Galileo high-resolution stereo imaging

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 233-236

  Collins, Geoffrey C ^a   Head III, James W ^a   Pappalardo, Robert T ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANETS; STRAIN RATE; TECTONICS; THERMAL GRADIENTS; FAULTING; SUBSTRATES;

GANYMEDE GROOVED TERRAIN; STEREO IMAGING;

GEOMORPHOLOGY; STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING;

EXTENSIONAL INSTABILITY; PLANETARY SURFACE;

GANYMEDE;

BRITTLE LAYERS; DUCTILE SUBSTRATE; EXTENSIONAL STRAIN; GALILEO IMAGES; GROOVE FORMATION; HIGH RESOLUTION STEREO; NORMAL FAULTING; STEREO-IMAGE;

EID: 0032004301     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL03772     Document Type: Article

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