The aureole of Olympus Mons (Mars) as the compound deposit of submarine landslides

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 312, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 126-139

  De Blasio, Fabio Vittorio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aureole; Hydroplaning; Landslides; Olympus Mons

Indexed keywords

AUREOLE; CANARY ISLANDS; DEBRIS FLOWS; HYDROPLANING; LANDSLIDE DEPOSITS; MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; OLYMPUS; ROCK AVALANCHE; RUNOUT DISTANCES; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDES;

DEBRIS; DEPOSITS; SOLAR SYSTEM; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

LANDSLIDES;

AUREOLE; DATA INTERPRETATION; DEBRIS FLOW; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDSLIDE; MARS; PLANETARY LANDFORM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROCK AVALANCHE; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDE; VOLCANO;

EID: 80055018780     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.09.019     Document Type: Article

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