Heat flow and thickness of a convective ice shell on Europa for grain size-dependent rheologies

Icarus

Volumn 190, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 145-154

  Ruiz, Javier ^a   Alvarez Gómez, José A ^b   Tejero, Rosa ^b   Sánchez, Nieves ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE ANDALUCÍA CSIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Europa; Jupiter; satellites; solid body; Thermal histories; Tides

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547791479     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2007.03.015     Document Type: Article

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