Large-Scale and Deep-Seated Gravitational Slope Deformations on Mars: A Review
| Autor: | Goro Komatsu, Carlo Esposito, Marco Emanuele Discenza, Enrico Miccadei |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Martian
DSGSDs sackung (sagging) 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences lcsh:QE1-996.5 Mars Mars Exploration Program Geophysics 010502 geochemistry & geophysics Exploration of Mars Controlling and triggering factors morphological features slope collapses 01 natural sciences controlling and triggering factors Gravitation lcsh:Geology Planet General Earth and Planetary Sciences Scale (map) Geology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Geosciences, Vol 11, Iss 174, p 174 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 2076-3263 |
| Popis: | The availability of high-quality surface data acquired by recent Mars missions and the development of increasingly accurate methods for analysis have made it possible to identify, describe, and analyze many geological and geomorphological processes previously unknown or unstudied on Mars. Among these, the slow and large-scale slope deformational phenomena, generally known as Deep-Seated Gravitational Slope Deformations (DSGSDs), are of particular interest. Since the early 2000s, several studies were conducted in order to identify and analyze Martian large-scale gravitational processes. Similar to what happens on Earth, these phenomena apparently occur in diverse morpho-structural conditions on Mars. Nevertheless, the difficulty of directly studying geological, structural, and geomorphological characteristics of the planet makes the analysis of these phenomena particularly complex, leaving numerous questions to be answered. This paper reports a synthesis of all the known studies conducted on large-scale deformational processes on Mars to date, in order to provide a complete and exhaustive picture of the phenomena. After the synthesis of the literature studies, the specific characteristics of the phenomena are analyzed, and the remaining main open issued are described. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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