Accommodation of lithospheric shortening on Mercury from altimetric profiles of ridges and lobate scarps measured during MESSENGER flybys 1 and 2

Icarus

Volumn 209, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 247-255

  Zuber, Maria T ^a   Montési, Laurent G J ^b   Farmer, Grant T ^a   Hauck, Steven A ^c   Andreas Ritzer, J ^c   Phillips, Roger J ^d   Solomon, Sean C ^e   Smith, David E ^a   Talpe, Matthieu J ^a   Head, James W ^f   Neumann, Gregory A ^g   Watters, Thomas R ^h   Johnson, Catherine L ⁱ  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^h DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mercury; Tectonics; Terrestrial planets; Thermal histories

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955770217     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.02.026     Document Type: Article

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