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    Geologic Tools

    Reasoning in geology is based on the continuous activity of comparing, connecting, observations. This allows the formulation of genetic hypotheses, which consequences will be evaluated through their consistenc...

    Monica Pondrelli, Victor R. Baker, Ernst Hauber in Planetary Geology (2018)

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    Effects of Tsunami Wave Erosion on Natural Landscapes: Examples from the 2011 Tohoku-oki Tsunami

    The 2011 Tohoku-oki Tsunami affected approximately 600 km of the northeastern coast of the Japanese Honshu Island, leaving traces of destruction on man-made buildings and depositing mud- to boulder-sized sedim...

    Goro Komatsu, Kazuhisa Goto, Victor R. Baker… in Tsunami Events and Lessons Learned (2014)

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    Glacial Megalakes

    Victor R. Baker in Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments (2009)

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    Late Quaternary Megafloods

    Victor R. Baker in Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments (2009)

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    Traits and Evolution of the Tharsis Superplume, Mars

    James M. Dohm, Victor R. Baker, Shigenori Maruyama… in Superplumes: Beyond Plate Tectonics (2007)

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    Tharsis Superplume and the Geological Evolution of Early Mars

    Victor R. Baker, Shigenori Maruyama, James M. Dohm in Superplumes: Beyond Plate Tectonics (2007)

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    Extraterrestrial hydrogeology

    Subsurface water processes are common for planetary bodies in the solar system and are highly probable for exoplanets (planets outside the solar system). For many solar system objects, the subsurface water exi...

    Victor R. Baker, James M. Dohm, Alberto G. Fairén, Ty P. A. Ferré… in Hydrogeology Journal (2005)

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    11 Entropy and the Sha** of the Landscape by Water

    We explore applications of thermodynamics to hydrology, in particular the application of extremization principles to self-organized river networks. Two thermodynamic principles have been applied to river netwo...

    Hideaki Miyamoto, Victor R. Baker… in Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics and the Pro… (2005)

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    Floods and other catastrophic events

    Victor R. Baker in Encyclopedia of Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks (2003)

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    Floods and other catastrophic events

    Victor R. Baker in Sedimentology (1978)

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    Hydrogeomorphic methods for the regional evaluation of flood hazards

    The “upstream” approach to flood hazard evaluation involves the estimation of hydrologic response in small drainage basins. This study demonstrates the application of geomorphology to such studies in a region ...

    Victor R. Baker in Environmental Geology (1976)

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    Urban geology of boulder, colorado: A progress report

    A cooperative program in urban geology between the city of Boulder, Colorado, and the Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, has been in effect since late 1969. The principal geological pro...

    Victor R. Baker in Environmental Geology (1975)