Martian perched craters and large ejecta volume: Evidence for episodes of deflation in the northern lowlands

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1647-1658

  Meresse, Sandrine ^a   Costard, François ^a   Mangold, Nicolas ^a   Baratoux, David ^b   Boyce, Joseph M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRATER; DEFLATION; EJECTA; IMPACT; MARS; PLANET; PLANETARY LANDFORM;

EID: 33750589020     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2006.tb00442.x     Document Type: Article

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