Standardizing the nomenclature of Martian impact crater ejecta morphologies

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 105, Issue E11, 2000, Pages 26733-26738

  Barlow, Nadine G ^a   Boyce, Joseph M ^b   Costard, Francois M ^c   Craddock, Robert A ^d   Garvin, James B ^e   Sakimoto, Susan E H ^e   Kuzmin, Ruslan O ^f   Roddy, David J ^g   Soderblom, Laurence A ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f VERNADSKY INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^g U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRATER; EJECTA; IMPACT STRUCTURE; MARS;

EID: 0034472088     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000JE001258     Document Type: Article

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