Science news articles about 'debris flows'

... bowl-shaped depressions fringed by lobate, viscous-flow deposits that extend well out onto the crater ... on Mars". Other candidate processes include dry debris flows and melting of shallow ground ice, ...

Orbiter radar reveals glaciers concealed under mid-latitude debris flows on Mars.

... in the northern and southern midlatitudes of Mars and known as lobate debris aprons and lineated valley fill are believed to have formed either as debris flows mobilized by pore ice or as ...

... at other volcanoes, and by using some visual tools, like computational modeling of mud and debris flows, we can help people living around the volcano better understand the hazard they live with," ...

... ecologist and project leader of the SRS Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory located near Otto, NC. "Since debris flows usually start in the hollows, those dominated by rhododendron ...

Researchers are seeking to assess the risk of debris flows and to forecast when disaster looms, with an aim to save lives.

... in a coniferous forest in southern California. Soil formation was studied using a space-for-time substitution, in which debris flows of various ages were used to approximate soil formation over time.