Elliptical craters and basins on the terrestrial planets

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 465, Issue , 2010, Pages 1-13

  Andrews Hanna, Jeffrey C ^a   Zuber, Maria T ^b  

^a Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; MOON; PLANETS; POLES; PROJECTILES;

CRATER POPULATION; ELLIPTICAL CRATERS; PLANETARY SURFACES; PROBABILITY OF OCCURRENCE; SCALING RELATIONSHIPS; SIMPLE GEOMETRIC MODELS; SOUTH POLE-AITKEN; TERRESTRIAL PLANETS;

METEOR IMPACTS;

BASIN EVOLUTION; CRATER; CRATERING; FORMATION MECHANISM; MARS; PLANETARY EVOLUTION; PLANETARY SURFACE; TRAJECTORY;

EID: 78650945924     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2010.2465(01)     Document Type: Article

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