Distribution and evolution of scalloped terrain in the southern hemisphere, Mars

Icarus

Volumn 206, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 691-706

  Zanetti, Michael ^a   Hiesinger, Harald ^a   Reiss, Dennis ^a   Hauber, Ernst ^b   Neukum, Gerhard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mars, Surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649236262     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.09.010     Document Type: Article

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