Surface and crater-exposed lithologic units of the Isidis based as mapped by coanalysis of THEMIS and TES derived data products

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 113, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Tornabene, Livio L ^a   Moersch, Jeffrey E ^b   McSween, Harry Y ^b   Hamilton, Victoria E ^c,d   Piatek, Jennifer L ^b,e   Christensen, Phillip R ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRATER; DATA SET; DECONVOLUTION; HETEROGENEITY; IMPACT STRUCTURE; LITHOLOGY; MARS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STRATIGRAPHY;

HESPERIA; PATERA; PHYMATA;

EID: 57649116101     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JE002988     Document Type: Article

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