Obliquity variations due to climate friction on Mars: Darwin versus layered models

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 103, Issue E12, 1998, Pages 28599-28605

  Spada, Giorgio ^a   Alfonsi, Laura ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; FRICTION; MANTLE; MARS; OBLIQUITY; VISCOSITY;

EID: 18544398903     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98JE02495     Document Type: Article

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