Early martian dynamo generation due to giant impacts

Icarus

Volumn 207, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 82-97

  Reese, C C ^a   Solomatov, V S ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic fields; Mars; Mars, Interior

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950050166     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.10.016     Document Type: Article

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