Polygonal impact craters in the Argyre region, Mars: Evidence for influence of target structure on the final crater morphology

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1163-1173

  Öhman, Teemu ^a   Aittola, M ^a   Kostama, V P ^a   Hyvarinen M ^a   Raitala, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRATER; DATA SET; FORMATION MECHANISM; GEOMETRY; IMPACT; MARS; MORPHOLOGY; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION;

EID: 33747886561     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2006.tb00513.x     Document Type: Article

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