Effect of impact cratering on the geologic evolution of Mars and implications for Earth

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 453, Issue , 2009, Pages 15-24

  Barlow, Nadine G ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEGRADATION; SOLAR SYSTEM;

CRATER FORMATION; DEGRADATION RATE; GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT; IMPACT CRATERING; MARTIAN ATMOSPHERES; MARTIAN SURFACE; SHORT DURATIONS; TARGET MATERIALS;

GEOMORPHOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CRATER; CRATERING; EARTH; FRAGMENTATION; HEATING; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; MARS; MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE; OUTFLOW; PLANETARY EVOLUTION; PLANETARY SURFACE; REGOLITH; SOLAR SYSTEM;

EID: 74949096116     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2009.453(02)     Document Type: Article

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