Tsunamis on Mars: Earth analogues of projected Martian sediment

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 58, Issue 14-15, 2010, Pages 1823-1831

  Mahaney, William C ^a   Dohm, James M ^b,c   Costa, Pedro ^d   Krinsley, David H ^e  

^a Quaternary Surveys   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Grain SEM; Tsunamis on Earth Mars

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; BOLIDE IMPACT; COASTAL WATER DEPTHS; COLLISIONAL EFFECTS; ENERGY VARIATIONS; FRICTIONAL EFFECTS; GRAIN TYPES; HIGH ENERGY; HIGH FREQUENCY; INFLUENCING FACTOR; LOCAL FIELDS; MARTIAN LANDSCAPE; MICRO TEXTURE; MICROFEATURES; OCEAN BOUNDARIES; QUARTZ GRAINS; SEM; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS; ULTRA-HIGH ENERGIES; WAVE COMPRESSION; WAVE ENERGY;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; FRICTION; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; INSTRUMENTS; KINETIC ENERGY; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; OLIVINE; QUARTZ; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; WATER LEVELS; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

TSUNAMIS;

EID: 78449277164     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2010.08.010     Document Type: Article

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