Rheological constraints on martian landslides

Icarus

Volumn 163, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 347-362

  Harrison, Keith P ^a   Grimm, Robert E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Blackhawk Golden   (United States)

Author keywords

Mars; Planets; Surface; Surfaces; Terrestrial planets

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037765473     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0019-1035(03)00045-9     Document Type: Article

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