Erosional modification and gully formation at Meteor Crater, Arizona: Insights into crater degradation processes on Mars

Icarus

Volumn 208, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 608-620

  Kumar, P Senthil ^a,b   Head, James W ^b   Kring, David A ^c  

^a NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Earth; Mars, Climate; Mars, Surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954660921     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.03.032     Document Type: Article

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