Possible impact melt and debris flows at Tooting Crater, Mars

Icarus

Volumn 209, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 369-389

  Morris, Aisha R ^a   Mouginis Mark, Peter J ^b   Garbeil, Harold ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Cratering; Geological processes; Mars, Surface; Volcanism

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956272461     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.05.029     Document Type: Article

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