Differential melt scaling for oblique impacts on terrestrial planets

Icarus

Volumn 218, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 906-916

  Abramov, Oleg ^a   Wong, Stephanie M ^b   Kring, David A ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Earth; Geophysics; Impact processes; Mars; Moon

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857499072     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2011.12.022     Document Type: Article

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