The importance of secondary cratering to age constraints on planetary surfaces

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 34, Issue , 2006, Pages 535-567

  McEwen, Alfred S ^a   Bierhaus, Edward B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteroids; Chronology; Europa; Impact processes; Mars; Moon

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; EXCAVATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MOON; SPACE DEBRIS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

EUROPA; IMPACT PROCESSES; INTERPLANETARY DEBRIS; MARS; SECONDARY CRATERING;

PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS;

ASTEROID; CRATER; CRATERING; EUROPA; GEOCHRONOLOGY; IMPACT; MARS; MOON; PLANETARY SURFACE;

EID: 33744960762     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.34.031405.125018     Document Type: Review

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