On Titan's Xanadu region

Icarus

Volumn 214, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 556-560

  Brown, Robert H ^a   Barnes, Jason W ^b   Melosh, H Jay ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cratering; Titan, surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051470204     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2011.03.018     Document Type: Article

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