Europa's dynamic icy crust

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1685-1710

  Greenberg, Richard ^a   Geissler, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUST; EUROPA; ICE; PLANETARY SATELLITE; PLANETARY SURFACE; TECTONICS; TIDE;

EID: 0036976312     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2002.tb01158.x     Document Type: Article

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