Seismic detection of meteorite impacts on Mars

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 186, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 70-80

  Teanby, N A ^a   Wookey, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Internal structure; Mars; Planets; Seismology

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND NOISE; CRATER DIAMETER; DEEP INTERNAL STRUCTURES; DETECTABILITY; HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING; IMPACT TEST; INDUCED SEISMICITY; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; LOCAL IMPACTS; MARS; METEORITE IMPACT; NEAR-SURFACE; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; SEISMIC DETECTION; SEISMIC EVENT; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMIC PROPERTIES; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMIC STATION; SEISMIC WAVEFORMS; SUB-SURFACES; TELESEISMIC DISTANCES;

METEORITES; PLANETS; SEISMOGRAPHS; SEISMOLOGY;

METEOR IMPACTS;

CRATER; MARS; MARTIAN METEORITE; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMIC WAVE; SEISMICITY; SEISMOLOGY; TELESEISMIC WAVE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 79955723514     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2011.03.004     Document Type: Article

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