Tectonic patterns on reoriented and despun planetary bodies

Icarus

Volumn 195, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 459-473

  Matsuyama, Isamu ^a   Nimmo, Francis ^b  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Enceladus; Europa; Rotational dynamics; Satellites; surfaces; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

EID: 42049088083     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2007.12.003     Document Type: Article

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