Crack azimuths on Europa: Time sequence in the southern leading face

Icarus

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 144-157

  Sarid, Alyssa Rose ^a   Greenberg, Richard ^a   Hoppa, Gregory V ^b   Geissler, Paul ^a   Preblich, Brandon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Europa; Geological processes; Tectonics; Tides

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842584901     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2003.11.021     Document Type: Article

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