New perspectives on Mars' crustal magnetic field

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 340, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 791-800

  Langlais, Benoit ^a,b   Quesnel, Yoann ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^c GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Global evolution; Lithospheric magnetic field; Mars; Models; Polar wander

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; GEODYNAMO; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIZATION; MARS; MODELING; POLAR WANDERING;

PATERA;

EID: 56949093014     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2008.08.006     Document Type: Article

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