Ice diapirs on Europa: Implications for liquid water

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 22, 1998, Pages 4157-4160

  Rathbun, Jùlie A ^a   Musser Jr , George S ^b   Squyres, Steven W ^a,c  

^a Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

^b Scientific American   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAPIR; EUROPA; ICE; SURFACE STRUCTURE; TOPOGRAPHY;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; ICE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WATER; LIQUIDS;

ICE DIAPIRS;

SOLAR SYSTEM; ICE;

ANALYTIC MODELING; GALILEO IMAGES; LIQUID WATER; SUBSURFACE STRUCTURES; SURFACE FEATURE; SURFACE MANIFESTATIONS; THERMALLY DRIVEN; TIME-SCALES;

EID: 0032534146     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900135     Document Type: Article

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