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List of works by William B. McKinnon

. . . and martian surfaces

scientific article published in Nature

An enigma orbiting a puzzle

scientific article published in Nature

Around Venus in 37 days

scientific article published in Nature

Basins, fractures and volcanoes: Global cartography and topography of Pluto from New Horizons

article

Bladed Terrain on Pluto: Possible origins and evolution

article by Jeffrey M. Moore et al published January 2018 in Icarus

Breaking up is hard to do: Global cartography and topography of Pluto's mid-sized icy Moon Charon from New Horizons

article

Callisto

article

Chaos on Io: A model for formation of mountain blocks by crustal heating, melting, and tilting

article

Charon tectonics ⬇️

scientific article published on 16 December 2016

Cold compaction of water ice

article

Cometary Nuclei and Tidal Disruption: The Geologic Record of Crater Chains on Callisto and Ganymede

article

Constraining the heat flux between Enceladus’ tiger stripes: Numerical modeling of funiscular plains formation

journal article

Convection in a volatile nitrogen-ice-rich layer drives Pluto's geological vigour

scientific article

Corrigendum: Convection in a volatile nitrogen-ice-rich layer drives Pluto's geological vigour

scientific article published on 6 July 2016

Craters of the Pluto-Charon system

article

Delayed formation of the equatorial ridge on Iapetus from a subsatellite created in a giant impact

scholarly article

Dunes on Pluto

scientific article published in Science

Electrically heated asteroids

scientific article published in Nature

Enceladus' extreme heat flux as revealed by its relaxed craters

article

Estimates of comet fragment masses from impact crater chains on Callisto and Ganymede

scientific article published in July 1995

Fault offsets and lateral crustal movement on Europa: Evidence for a mobile ice shell

scientific article (publication date: May 1989)

Formation of mountains on Io: Variable volcanism and thermal stresses

scholarly article

Geologic Landforms and Chronostratigraphic History of Charon as Revealed by a Hemispheric Geologic Map ⬇️

scientific article published in January 2019

Geological mapping of Sputnik Planitia on Pluto

scientific article

Geology before Pluto: Pre-encounter considerations

article

Global distribution of volcanic centers and mountains on Io: Control by asthenospheric heating and implications for mountain formation

scientific article

Great Expectations: Plans and Predictions for New Horizons Encounter With Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU69 (“Ultima Thule”) ⬇️

article

Icy clues to Triton's origins

scientific article published in Nature

Impacts giveth and impacts taketh away

scientific article published in Nature

Investigation of Charon's Craters With Abrupt Terminus Ejecta, Comparisons With Other Icy Bodies, and Formation Implications ⬇️

scholarly article

Journal club

journal article; published in Nature on 2008-11-26

Killer acid at the K/T boundary

scientific article published in Nature

Landslides on Charon

scholarly article

Large impact features on middle-sized icy satellites

article

Massive ice avalanches on Iapetus mobilized by friction reduction during flash heating

article

Mean radius and shape of Pluto and Charon from New Horizons images

scholarly article

Morphological comparison of blocks in chaos terrains on Pluto, Europa, and Mars

scientific article published in March 2021

New Horizons: Anticipated Scientific Investigations at the Pluto System

article

Odd tectonics of a rebuilt moon

scientific article published in Nature

On convection in ice I shells of outer Solar System bodies, with detailed application to Callisto

scientific article (publication date: August 2006)

On the origin of Triton and Pluto

scientific article published in Nature

One-hundred-km-scale basins on Enceladus: Evidence for an active ice shell

scholarly article

Origins of pits and troughs and degradation on a small primitive planetesimal in the Kuiper Belt: high-resolution topography of (486958) Arrokoth (aka 2014 MU69) from New Horizons

scientific article published in March 2021

Out on the edge

scientific article published in Nature

Planetary science. The strangest terrestrial planet

scientific article

Plasma, plumes and rings: Saturn system dynamics as recorded in global color patterns on its midsize icy satellites

article

Pluto's structure and composition suggest origin in the solar, not a planetary, nebula

scientific article published in Nature

Pluto: Pits and mantles on uplands north and east of Sputnik Planitia

scholarly article

Present and past glaciation on Pluto

journal article

Recent cryovolcanism in Virgil Fossae on Pluto

article

Relaxed impact craters on Ganymede: Regional variation and high heat flows

journal article

Reply to the comment by P. D. Spudis on the review of The Geology of Multi-Ring Basins

scholarly article by William B. McKinnon published in June 1995

Sublimation as a landform-shaping process on Pluto

article

Sulfate content of Europa's ocean and shell: evolutionary considerations and some geological and astrobiological implications

scientific article published on January 2003

The Hyperion hypothesis

scientific article published in Nature

The Pluto System After New Horizons

article

The Thermal Evolution and Internal Structure of Saturn's Mid-Sized Icy Satellites

article

The geology of Pluto and Charon through the eyes of New Horizons

scientific article

The geology of multi-ring impact basins: The moon and other Planets

scholarly article by William B. McKinnon published in October 1994

The nature and origin of Charon's smooth plains ⬇️

journal article

Vestal voyagers unveiled

scientific article published in Nature

Viscous relaxation of Ganymede’s impact craters: Constraints on heat flux

scientific article

Washboard and fluted terrains on Pluto as evidence for ancient glaciation

journal article

Who made the sky

scientific article published in Nature

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