Volcanic flow development at Alba Patera, Mars
Abstract
On the Alba Patera volcanic shield of Mars, a Hesperian flood-lava phase was followed by the extrusion of sheet lavas and tube-fed lavas emerging in many cases from the flanking fissures of rising domes. These events were followed by the eruption of additional sheet and tube-fed lavas from linear vents which formed complex flow fields. Later, Amazonian volcanism at Alba involved long, narrow flows from two complex summit calderas; the thermal energy outflow for some individual flows would have been substantially greater than the annual heat loss of the earth through volcanism, implying that the process of patera-building represented substantial Martian geological heat-loss during the planet's early volcanic-centralization stages. 40 refs.
- Authors:
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- Sheffield Univ. (England)
- Publication Date:
- OSTI Identifier:
- 7135051
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal Name:
- Icarus (International Journal of the Solar System); (USA)
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 83; Journal ID: ISSN 0019-1035
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; MARS PLANET; VOLCANISM; HEAT LOSSES; LAVA; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACES; VOLCANOES; ENERGY LOSSES; LOSSES; PLANETS; 640107* - Astrophysics & Cosmology- Planetary Phenomena
Citation Formats
Cattermole, P. Volcanic flow development at Alba Patera, Mars. United States: N. p., 1990.
Web. doi:10.1016/0019-1035(90)90079-O.
Cattermole, P. Volcanic flow development at Alba Patera, Mars. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/0019-1035(90)90079-O
Cattermole, P. 1990.
"Volcanic flow development at Alba Patera, Mars". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/0019-1035(90)90079-O.
@article{osti_7135051,
title = {Volcanic flow development at Alba Patera, Mars},
author = {Cattermole, P},
abstractNote = {On the Alba Patera volcanic shield of Mars, a Hesperian flood-lava phase was followed by the extrusion of sheet lavas and tube-fed lavas emerging in many cases from the flanking fissures of rising domes. These events were followed by the eruption of additional sheet and tube-fed lavas from linear vents which formed complex flow fields. Later, Amazonian volcanism at Alba involved long, narrow flows from two complex summit calderas; the thermal energy outflow for some individual flows would have been substantially greater than the annual heat loss of the earth through volcanism, implying that the process of patera-building represented substantial Martian geological heat-loss during the planet's early volcanic-centralization stages. 40 refs.},
doi = {10.1016/0019-1035(90)90079-O},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/7135051},
journal = {Icarus (International Journal of the Solar System); (USA)},
issn = {0019-1035},
number = ,
volume = 83,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 1990},
month = {Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 1990}
}