Testing the viability of topographic relaxation as a mechanism for the formation of lunar floor-fractured craters

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 106, Issue E11, 2001, Pages 27901-27909

  Dombard, Andrew J ^a,c   Gillis, Jeffery J ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRATER; FRACTURE INITIATION; LUNAR CRUST; MOON; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 0035676068     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000JE001388     Document Type: Article

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