Impact constraints on the age and origin of the lowlands of Mars

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2006, Pages

  Frey, Herbert V ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

BURIED LOWLANDS; CONSTRAINS MODEL; CRUSTAL TOPOGRAPHIC DICHOTOMY; IMPACT CONSTRAINTS; LOWLAND CRUST; MARTIAN LOWLANDS;

PLANETS;

IMPACT STRUCTURE; MARS; PLANETARY EVOLUTION; PLANETARY LANDFORM; PLANETARY SURFACE;

EID: 33745442806     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024484     Document Type: Article

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