Impact origin for the Martian crustal dichotomy: Half emptied or half filled?

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 115, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Reese, C C ^a   Orth, C P ^a   Solomatov, V S ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; IMPACT; MARS; NUMERICAL METHOD;

EID: 77953083703     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JE003506     Document Type: Article

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