Transition from complex craters to multi-ringed basins on terrestrial planetary bodies: Scale-dependent role of the expanding melt cavity and progressive interaction with the displaced zone

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Head, J W ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELTING; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

COLLAPSE BEHAVIOR; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; FUNDAMENTAL CHANGES; IMPACT VELOCITIES; PROGRESSIVE INTERACTIONS; RADIAL EXPANSIONS; STRENGTH DIFFERENCES; TRANSIENT CAVITIES;

INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT;

EID: 79955071659     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041790     Document Type: Article

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