Hiding Titan's ocean: Densification and hydrocarbon storage in an icy regolith

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1029-1037

  Kossacki, Konrad J ^a   Lorenz, Ralph D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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EID: 30244485972     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0032-0633(96)00022-0     Document Type: Article

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