Individual lava flow thicknesses in Oceanus Procellarum and Mare Serenitatis determined from Clementine multispectral data

Icarus

Volumn 209, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 323-336

  Weider, Shoshana Z ^a,b,c   Crawford, Ian A ^a,b   Joy, Katherine H ^a,b,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e NASA Lunar Science Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Cratering; Moon; Spectroscopy; Volcanism

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956287299     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.05.010     Document Type: Article

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