Morphology and geometry of Valles Marineris landslides

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1011-1022

  Quantin, C ^a   Allemand, P ^a   Delacourt, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Landslide; Mars; Morphology

Indexed keywords

FLUIDIZATION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GRAVITATION; LANDSLIDES; SPACE DEBRIS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

MARS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VALLES MARINERIS LANDSLIDES;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

EID: 4644251004     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2004.07.016     Document Type: Conference Paper

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