Catastrophic emplacement of giant landslides aided by thermal decomposition: Heart Mountain, Wyoming

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 411, Issue , 2015, Pages 199-207

  Mitchell, Thomas M ^a,b   Smith, Steven A F ^b,c   Anders, Mark H ^d   Di Toro, Giulio ^b,e   Nielsen, Stefan ^f   Cavallo, Andrea ^b   Beard, Andrew D ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^d Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^f DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heart Mountain; High velocity friction; Landslide; Thermal decomposition; Thermal pressurization

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; DECOMPOSITION; FRICTION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LANDFORMS; PYROLYSIS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

BASAL DETACHMENT; CARBONATE DECOMPOSITION; CARBONATE ROCK; CATASTROPHIC EMPLACEMENT; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; FRICTION EXPERIMENTS; HIGH-VELOCITY FRICTIONS; THERMAL PRESSURIZATION;

LANDSLIDES;

CALCITE; CARBONATE ROCK; DEGASSING; DOLOMITE; EMPLACEMENT; LANDSLIDE; MICROSTRUCTURE; THERMAL DECOMPOSITION; VOLCANIC ROCK;

HEART MOUNTAIN; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

EID: 84919632327     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.10.051     Document Type: Article

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