Mercury surface composition: Integrating petrologic modeling and remote sensing data to place constraints on FeO abundance

Icarus

Volumn 209, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 301-313

  Riner, Miriam A ^a   McCubbin, Francis M ^b   Lucey, Paul G ^a   Jeffrey Talyor, G ^a   Gillis Davis, Jeffrey J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geological processes; Mercury; Mercury, Surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956297158     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.05.018     Document Type: Article

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