Viscous relaxation of craters within the martian south polar layered deposits

Icarus

Volumn 174, Issue 2 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 396-418

  Pathare, Asmin V ^a,b,c   Paige, David A ^b   Turtle, Elizabeth ^c,d  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cratering; Ices; Mars, climate; Mars, surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 15544386075     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2004.10.031     Document Type: Article

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