Comparing landslides to fluidized crater ejecta on Mars

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1-22

  Barnouin Jha, Olivier S ^a   Baloga, S ^b   Glaze, L ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Proxemy Research Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRATER; EJECTA; LANDSLIDE; MARS;

EID: 21844475658     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003JE002214     Document Type: Article

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