Sinton crater, Mars: Evidence for impact into a plateau icefield and melting to produce valley networks at the Hesperian-Amazonian boundary

Icarus

Volumn 202, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 39-59

  Morgan, Gareth A ^a   Head III, James W ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mars; surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349218182     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.02.025     Document Type: Article

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