The evolution of impact basins: Viscous relaxation of topographic relief

We evaluate the hypothesis that viscous relaxation has been an important process for modifying the topographic profiles of ancient large impact basins on the moon. We adopt a representative topographic profile of the Orientale basin, the youngest large impact basin on the moon, as an estimate of th...

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Main Authors: Sean C. Solomon, Robeat, P. Comeit, James W. Head
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1982
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.564.9222
http://www.planetary.brown.edu/pdfs/436.pdf