Fluid dynamics of local martian magma oceans

Icarus

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 102-120

  Reese, C C ^a   Solomatov, V S ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mars; Planetary formation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747285854     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.04.008     Document Type: Article

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