Planetary surface dating from crater size-frequency distribution measurements: Partial resurfacing events and statistical age uncertainty

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 294, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 223-229

  Michael, G G ^a   Neukum, G ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age uncertainty; Crater counting; Mars; Moon; Resurfacing; Surface dating

Indexed keywords

CRATER COUNTING; CRATER POPULATION; CRATER SIZES; CUMULATIVE PRODUCTION; DEPOSITIONAL EVENT; NON-LINEAR; PLANETARY SURFACES; PRODUCTION FUNCTION; STATISTICAL UNCERTAINTY; SURFACE DATING; SURFACE FORMATION;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CRATER; DEPOSITION VELOCITY; EROSION RATE; FORMATION MECHANISM; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MARS; MOON; PLANETARY SURFACE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 77953293291     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.12.041     Document Type: Article

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