Geology and stratigraphy of King crater, lunar farside

Icarus

Volumn 163, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 307-329

  Heather, David J ^a   Dunkin, Sarah K ^b,c  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Geological processes; Mineralogy; Moon; Surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037765464     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0019-1035(02)00063-5     Document Type: Article

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