Displacement length relations of trust faults associated with lobate scarps on mercury and mars comparison with terrestrial faults

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 22, 2000, Pages 3659-3662

  Watters, Thomas R ^a   Schultz, Richard A ^b   Robinson, Mark S ^c  

^a SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULT DISPLACEMENT; MARS; MERCURY (PLANET); THRUST FAULT;

ACCELERATION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PLANETS; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; TECTONICS; MERCURY (METAL);

MARS; MERCURY; TERRESTRIAL FAULTS;

PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS; FAULTING;

ACCELERATION DUE TO GRAVITY; LOBATE SCARPS; TECTONIC SETTINGS; THRUST FAULTS;

MERCURIA;

EID: 0034351914     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000GL011554     Document Type: Article

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