Compaction experiments on ice-silica particle mixtures: Implication for residual porosity of small icy bodies

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 114, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Yasui, Minami ^a   Arakawa, Masahiko ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPACTION; COMPRESSION; EXPERIMENT; POROSITY; SILICA; TEMPERATURE; TIMESCALE;

EID: 72049114727     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JE003374     Document Type: Article

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