Tidally driven stress accumulation and shear failure of Enceladus's tiger stripes

Icarus

Volumn 198, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 435-451

  Smith Konter, Bridget ^a,b   Pappalardo, Robert T ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

Enceladus; Ices; mechanical properties; solid body; Tectonics; Tides

Indexed keywords

EID: 55949119840     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.07.005     Document Type: Article

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