Conamara Chaos Region, Europa: Reconstruction of mobile polygonal ice blocks

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 23, 1999, Pages 4277-4280

  Spaun, N A ^a   Head, J W ^a   Collins, G C ^a   Prockter, L M ^a   Pappalardo, R T ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIERS; ICE PROBLEMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; STRATIGRAPHY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOCKS; ROTATION;

CHAOTIC TERRAIN; CONAMARA CHAOS REGION; MOBILE POLYGONAL ICE BLOCKS; GALILEO IMAGES; HORIZONTAL TRANSLATION; ICE BLOCKS; LATERAL SCALE; LINEAR FEATURE; MATRIX MATERIALS; NEAR SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GEOMETRY;

EUROPA; ICE MECHANICS; PLANETARY SURFACE;

EID: 0033489795     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900176     Document Type: Article

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