Lunar sinuous rilles: Distribution, characteristics, and implications for their origin

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 79-80, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-38

  Hurwitz, Debra M ^a,c   Head, James W ^a   Hiesinger, Harald ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Lunar rille morphologies; Lunar sinuous rille ages; Lunar sinuous rille formation; Lunar sinuous rilles; Lunar volcanism

Indexed keywords

HIGHER RESOLUTION; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; LUNAR SINUOUS RILLE AGES; LUNAR SINUOUS RILLE FORMATION; LUNAR SINUOUS RILLES; LUNAR VOLCANISM; MECHANICAL EROSION; OBSERVATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS;

EROSION; LUNAR MISSIONS; PHOTOGRAPHY; SURVEYS;

GALLIUM;

EID: 84876298025     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2012.10.019     Document Type: Article

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