The effects of crater degradation and target differences on the morphologies of Martian complex craters

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 465, Issue , 2010, Pages 67-80

  Whitehead, J ^a   Grieve, R A F ^b   Garvin, J B ^c   Spray, J G ^d  

^a ST THOMAS UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NATURAL RESOURCES CANADA   (Canada)

^c NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; METEOR IMPACTS;

COMPLEX CRATERS; CRATER DEGRADATIONS; CRATER DIAMETER; CRATER MORPHOLOGY; FUTURE MISSION; STATISTICAL CORRELATION; SUBSURFACE GEOLOGY; WEAK CORRELATION;

GEOLOGY;

CRATER; DENUDATION; DIAMETER; HETEROGENEITY; MARS; MORPHOMETRY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANETARY EVOLUTION; PLANETARY SURFACE;

MERCURIA;

EID: 78650929338     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2010.2465(05)     Document Type: Article

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