Measurements of the elastic thickness under ancient lunar terrain

Icarus

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 100-107

  Crosby, Alistair ^a   McKenzie, Dan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Geophysics; Moon

Indexed keywords

EID: 12144263273     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2004.07.017     Document Type: Article

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