Coupled convection and tidal dissipation in Europa's ice shell using non-Newtonian grain-size-sensitive (GSS) creep rheology

Icarus

Volumn 212, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 262-267

  Han, Lijie ^a   Showman, Adam P ^b  

^a PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Europa; Ices; Jupiter

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952004422     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.11.034     Document Type: Article

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