Nonuniform cratering of the Moon and a revised crater chronology of the inner Solar System

Icarus

Volumn 214, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-20

  Le Feuvre, Mathieu ^a   Wieczorek, Mark A ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Cratering; Impact processes; Moon; Terrestrial planets

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959540250     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2011.03.010     Document Type: Article

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