Strength of faults on Mars from MOLA topography

Icarus

Volumn 157, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 34-42

  Barnett, David N ^a   Nimmo, Francis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Elastic thickness; Faults; Mars; Plate tectonics; Rifts; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036086283     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2002.6817     Document Type: Article

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