Thermal Modeling of Mafic and Ultramafic Igneous Rocks
Abstract
Experimental data suggests the thermal inertias of tested rocks are in the following increasing order: vesicular basalt, massive basalt, altered peridotite. Weathered surfaces mask the thermal signatures of all rocks tested.
- Publication:
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41st Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
- Pub Date:
- March 2010
- Bibcode:
- 2010LPI....41.1740J