Mechanics of tidally driven fractures in Europa's ice shell

Icarus

Volumn 177, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 367-379

  Lee, Sunwoong ^a   Pappalardo, Robert T ^b   Makris, Nicholas C ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Europa; Fracture; Ices; Ocean; Porosity; Radar; Tides

Indexed keywords

EID: 26444589141     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2005.07.003     Document Type: Article

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