Long term wind erosion on Mars

Icarus

Volumn 176, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 57-74

  Armstrong, John C ^a   Leovy, Conway B ^b  

^a WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Mars; Surfaces, planets; Terrestrial planets

Indexed keywords

EID: 18844395896     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2005.01.005     Document Type: Article

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