Buried impact craters: A topographic analysis of quasi-circular depressions, Utopia Basin, Mars

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1-8

  Buczkowski, Debra L ^a   Frey, Herbert V ^b   Roark, James H ^b   McGill, George E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMPACT STRUCTURE; MARS;

EID: 21344472323     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JE002324     Document Type: Article

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