Deep-water erosional remnants in eastern offshore Trinidad as terrestrial analogs for teardrop-shaped islands on Mars: Implications for outflow channel formation

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 699-702

  Moscardelli, Lorena ^a   Wood, Lesli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEEPWATER; DEEPWATER REGIONS; LIQUID CO; MARTIAN LANDSCAPE; MASS MOVEMENT; MASS TRANSPORT DEPOSIT; MASS-WASTING EVENTS; OIL AND GAS EXPLORATION; OUTFLOW CHANNEL; SEISMIC REFLECTIVITY; STRATIGRAPHIC ARCHITECTURE; SURFACE OF MARS; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS; TRINIDAD; WATER PROCESS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; EROSION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; STRATIGRAPHY;

OFFSHORE PETROLEUM PROSPECTING;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; GEOMORPHOLOGY; MARS; OUTFLOW; PLANETARY LANDFORM; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

EID: 79960044283     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G31949.1     Document Type: Article

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