Geophysical consequences of planetary-scale impacts into a Mars-like planet

Icarus

Volumn 211, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 960-985

  Marinova, Margarita M ^a,b   Aharonson, Oded ^a   Asphaug, Erik ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion; Cratering; Impact processes; Mars

Indexed keywords

EID: 79151482862     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.10.032     Document Type: Article

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