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Tag Archives: solifluction
THEMIS: Dunes and creeping ground in Lyot Crater
THEMIS Image of the Day, April 11, 2018. Lyot Crater is a large, complex crater in the northern lowlands of Vastitas Borealis. This image is located along the southern rim of the crater and shows part of the dune fields … Continue reading
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Tagged active dunes, Arizona State University, ASU, dunes, ice-rich mantling, Lyot Crater, Mars Odyssey, NASA, periglacial processes, sand dunes, solifluction, THEMIS, THEMIS Image of the Day, Thermal Emission Imaging System, Vastitas Borealis
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Creepy stuff: possible solifluction on Mars
Planetary Geomorphology Image of the Month, November 30, 2017: Andreas Johnsson (University of Gothenburg, Sweden). Small-scale lobes on Mars (Fig. 1) are tens to hundreds of meters wide and consist of an arcuate frontal riser that is a meter to … Continue reading
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Tagged frost, ground ice, mass wasting, periglacial processes, periglacial terrain, soil, solifluction
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