Venus: Estimation of age of impact craters on the basis of degree of preservation of associated radar-dark deposits

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 18, 2003, Pages

  Basilevsky, A T ^a,b   Head, J W ^b   Setyacva, I V ^c  

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

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADAR; SURFACES; TECTONICS; VOLCANOES; DEPOSITS;

RADAR-DARK DEPOSITS; ABSOLUTE AGES; IMPACT CRATERS; TECTONIC EVENTS; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

GEOPHYSICS; RADAR;

AGE DETERMINATION; CRATER; IMPACT STRUCTURE; VENUS;

EID: 0347542616     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017504     Document Type: Article

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