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Title: 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:
 [1]
  1. 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}
}