Role of material properties in the cratering record of young platy-ridged lava on Mars

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Dundas, Colin M ^a   Keszthelyi, Laszlo P ^b   Bray, Veronica J ^a   McEwen, Alfred S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAVA SURFACE; MATERIAL PROPERTY; MATERIAL STRENGTH; RIDGED SURFACES; SIZE-FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; TARGET SURFACE;

SURFACES;

CRATERING; GEOPHYSICS; LAVA; MARS;

EID: 77954389713     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL042869     Document Type: Article

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