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Crater Wall Flow-Like Features (Moon, Asteroids)

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Flow-like topographic or albedo features formed on steep slopes of inner crater walls on airless bodies (Bart 2007) (e.g., Fig. 1).

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Flow features on the northern interior slope of Furnerius A, Moon (cf. Fig. 5 in “Spur-and-Gully”). Scale bar 200 m. LROC NAC M187848982R (NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University)

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  1. Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, H-1525, P.O.B 49, Budapest, Hungary

    Tamás Börzsönyi

  2. Planetary Science Research Group, Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

    Henrik Hargitai

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Börzsönyi, T., Hargitai, H. (2014). Crater Wall Flow-Like Features (Moon, Asteroids). In: Encyclopedia of Planetary Landforms. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9213-9_106-1

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