Origin of ice diapirism, true polar wander, subsurface ocean, and tiger stripes of Enceladus driven by compositional convection

Icarus

Volumn 202, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 669-680

  Stegman, Dave R ^a   Freeman, J ^b   May, David A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Enceladus; Interiors; Rotational dynamics; Tectonics; Thermal histories

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649964446     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.03.017     Document Type: Article

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