Pedestal crater heights on Mars: A proxy for the thicknesses of past, ice-rich, Amazonian deposits

Icarus

Volumn 210, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 92-101

  Kadish, Seth J ^a   Head, James W ^a   Barlow, Nadine G ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cratering; Ices; Impact processes; Mars

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957271620     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.06.021     Document Type: Article

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