Spaceborne visible and thermal infrared lithologic mapping of impact-exposed subsurface lithologies at the Haughton impact structure, Devon Island, Canadian High Arctic: Applications to Mars

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1835-1858

  Tornabene, Livio L ^a   Moersch, Jeffrey E ^a   Osinski, Gordon R ^b   Lee, Pascal ^c   Wright, Shawn P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b CANADIAN SPACE AGENCY   (Canada)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMPACT STRUCTURE; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 33344471073     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2005.tb00149.x     Document Type: Article

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