New insights on the runout of large landslides in the Valles-Marineris canyons, Mars
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[i] Analogy with lab-scale dry granular flow experiments demonstrates that runouts and deposits heights of VallesMarineris (VM) landslides can be scaled on a curve varying primarily with the initial aspect ratio of the mobilized rock mass (before slope failure). This results suggests both that any interstitial fluid played a negligible part in the VM landslides dynamics and that mobility is not an appropriate tool to characterize their dynamics. Citation: Lajeunesse, E., C. Quantin, P. Allemand, and C. Delacourt (2006), New insights on the runout of large landslides in the Valles-Marineris canyons. Mars, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L04403, doi:10.1029/ 2005GL025168.
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