Episodic plate separation and fracture infill on the surface of Europa

Nature

Volumn 391, Issue 6665, 1998, Pages 371-373

  Sullivan, Robert ^a,h   Greeley, Ronald ^a   Homan, Kim ^a   Klemaszewski, James ^a   Belton, Michael J S ^b   Carr, Michael H ^c   Chapman, Clark R ^d   Tufts, Randy ^e   Head III, James W ^f   Pappalardo, Robert ^f   Moore, Jeffrey ^g   Thomas, Peter ^h  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^f BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE; WATER;

FRACTURE INFILL; PLANETARY SURFACE; PLATE SEPARATION;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; GEOLOGY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; GALILEO PROJECT; LONG DURATION; UNMANNED;

GEOLOGY; ICE; JUPITER;

EUROPA;

EID: 0032556889     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/34874     Document Type: Article

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