Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
May 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002agusm.p32b..01b&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2002, abstract #P32B-01
Mathematics
Logic
6225 Mars, 6299 General Or Miscellaneous
Scientific paper
Mars has a diverse suite of prodigious and spectacular mass flows, including rock avalanches, landslides, debris flows and lahars. Like many of the other geologic features on Mars, the scale of these features is often an order of magnitude greater than our terrestrial experience. The dimensions, morphological characteristics, and geologic settings of these deposits hold important clues to the dynamics of such flows, their rheology, and regional inferences about the history of climatic change on Mars. Currently available MOLA topographic data is better than 2km/pixel and MOC imaging data is at m/pixel. Anticipated NASA missions are intended to improve this data and supplement it with compositional information. Such data, combined with theoretical, laboratory, and terrestrial analog studies, and new topographic analysis tools, provides fascinating new opportunities for extending our knowledge of the emplacement of the large mass flows on Mars. Due to differences in scale, gravity, perspective, and environmental setting on Mars, such research also provides new opportunities for testing existing theories of large mass flows on Earth.
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