Effect of obliteration on crater-count chronologies for Martian surfaces

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Smith, Matthew R ^a   Gillespie, Alan R ^a   Montgomery, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EROSION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

CRATER POPULATIONS; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; IMPACT CRATERS; INFILLING; MARS EXPLORATIONS; PLANETARY SURFACES; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES; QUANTITATIVE MODELS; RE ANALYSES; SIGNIFICANT SURFACES; SURFACE AGES;

SOIL MECHANICS;

CRATER; IMPACT STRUCTURE; MARS; PLANETARY SURFACE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 58049085678     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL033538     Document Type: Article

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