Evidence for recent volcanism on mars from crater counts

Nature

Volumn 397, Issue 6720, 1999, Pages 586-589

  Hartmann, William K ^a   Malin, Michael ^b   McEwen, Alfred ^c   Carr, Michael ^d   Soderblom, Larry ^e   Thomas, Peter ^f   Danielson, Ed ^g   James, Phillip ^h   Veverka, Joseph ^f  

^a PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MALIN SPACE SCIENCE SYSTEMS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^e U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^f California Institute of Technology ^*  (United States)

^g CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRATER; IMPACT; MARS; VOLCANISM;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; DUST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE FLIGHT; VOLCANO;

EID: 0033580263     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/17545     Document Type: Article

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