Basement controls on the scale of giant polygons in Utopia Planitia, Mars

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 116, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Cooke, Michele ^a   Islam, Fariha ^a   McGill, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; MARS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLYGON; SEDIMENT; TOPOGRAPHY; TROUGH; UPLIFT;

EID: 80053065650     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JE003812     Document Type: Article

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