Statistical distribution of tumuli on pahoehoe flow surfaces: Analysis of examples in Hawaii and Iceland and potential applications to lava flows on Mars

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 110, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1-14

  Glaze, Lori S ^a   Anderson, Steve W ^b   Stofan, Ellen R ^a   Baloga, Steve ^a   Smrekar, S E ^c  

^a Proxemy Research Inc   (United States)

^b BLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAVA FLOW; MARS; MORPHOLOGY; PAHOEHOE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; ICELAND; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; WORLD;

EID: 26844440853     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JB003564     Document Type: Article

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