Giant impact stratification of the martian core

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Arkani Hamed, Jafar ^a   Olson, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE DEVICES; SHOCK WAVES;

ENERGY CONSIDERATIONS; GIANT IMPACT; IMPACT VELOCITIES; LIQUID CORES; NONUNIFORM TEMPERATURE; NUMERICAL DYNAMOS; SHOCK HEATING; WAVE HEATING;

DC GENERATORS;

EID: 77955403992     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041417     Document Type: Article

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