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Headwall Scarps

Headwall Scarps is a morphological feature denoting the steep, often arcuate, upslope boundary of a submarine landslide, distinguished by its position at the head of the failed mass and its formation through the initial rupture and displacement of seafloor sediment.

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Headwall Scarp

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Submarine landslides

Monty A. Hampton, Homa J. Lee, Jacques Locat · Reviews of Geophysics · 1996 · 958 citations

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Hillslope Evolution by Bedrock Landslides

Alexander L. Densmore, Robert S. Anderson, Brian G. McAdoo et al. · Science · 1997 · 120 citations · Full text

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Widespread fluid expulsion along the seafloor of the Costa Rica convergent margin

Gerhard Bohrmann, K. Heeschen, Carmen Jung et al. · Terra Nova · 2002 · 102 citations

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Shallow slides and pockmark swarms in the Eivissa Channel, western Mediterranean Sea

Galderic Lastras, Miquel Canals, Roger Úrgeles et al. · Sedimentology · 2004 · 100 citations · Full text

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Climatic limits to headwall retreat in the Khumbu Himalaya, eastern Nepal

Dirk Scherler · Geology · 2014 · 78 citations

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Authors

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  1. GF
    Gregory F. Moore

    University of Hawaii System, United States

    1 publications · 17 citations

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  2. BG
    Brian G. McAdoo

    Vassar College, United States

    1 publications · 120 citations

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  3. MB
    Massimo Bernini

    University of Parma, Italy

    1 publications · 18 citations

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  4. JL
    Jacques Locat

    Université Laval, Canada

    1 publications · 958 citations

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  5. AL
    Alexander L. Densmore

    Durham University, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 120 citations

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Institutions

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  1. University of California, Santa Cruz

    Santa Cruz, United States

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    360 citations

  2. University of Parma

    Parma, Italy

    1 h-index

    5 publications

    90 citations

  3. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

    Washington, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    42 citations

  4. California Institute of Technology

    Pasadena, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    78 citations

  5. Durham University

    Durham, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    132 citations

  6. Oregon State University

    Corvallis, United States

    1 h-index

    4 publications

    168 citations

  7. BP (United Kingdom)

    London, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    88 citations

  8. Eni (Italy)

    Rome, Italy

    1 h-index

    4 publications

    72 citations

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  1. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems

    1 publications · 42 citations

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  2. Sedimentology

    1 publications · 100 citations

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  3. Terra Nova

    1 publications · 102 citations

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  4. Science

    1 publications · 120 citations

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  5. Reviews of Geophysics

    1 publications · 958 citations

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