Do young martian ray craters have ages consistent with the crater count system?

Icarus

Volumn 208, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 621-635

  Hartmann, William K ^a   Quantin, Cathy ^b   Werner, Stephanie C ^c   Popova, Olga ^d  

^a PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOSPHERE DYNAMICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Crater chronology; Mars

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954625297     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.03.030     Document Type: Article

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