Impact ejecta emplacement on terrestrial planets

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 310, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 167-181

  Osinski, Gordon R ^a,b   Tornabene, Livio L ^c   Grieve, Richard A F ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b Canadian Lunar Research Network   (Canada)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^d NATURAL RESOURCES CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Impact cratering; Impact ejecta; Mars; Moon

Indexed keywords

CRATER FORMATION; CURRENT MODELS; IMPACT ANGLES; IMPACT CRATERING; IMPACT CRATERS; IMPACT EJECTA; IMPACT EVENTS; MARS; MELT FLOW; MULTISTAGE PROCESS; OBLIQUE IMPACT; PLANETARY BODIES; PLANETARY EXPLORATION; PLANETARY GRAVITY; RUNOUT DISTANCES; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TERRESTRIAL PLANETS; UNIVERSAL MODEL; VOLATILE CONTENTS;

BALLISTICS; DEPOSITS; EXCAVATION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; ION BEAMS; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

PLANETS;

CRATERING; EJECTA; EMPLACEMENT; IMPACT; MARS; MOON; PLANETARY SURFACE; RADIAL FLOW; SEDIMENTATION; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 80053172417     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.08.012     Document Type: Article

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