Impact craters in the northern hemisphere of Mars: Layered ejecta and central pit characteristics

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1425-1436

  Barlow, Nadine G ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRATER; EJECTA; IMPACT; MARS; MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE; MORPHOLOGY; PLANET;

EID: 33750592079     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2006.tb00427.x     Document Type: Article

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