The maximum size of inflated flood lavas: implications for the origin and evolution of Athabasca Valles, Mars
Abstract
We constrain the maximum size that an inflating, cooling-limited basalt flow can obtain using numerical models. We find that the Athabasca Valles flood lava on Mars is too large to represent a single, pāhoehoe-like inflated flow. Our work can be used to characterize putative lava flows throughout the solar system's terrestrial bodies.
- Publication:
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European Planetary Science Congress
- Pub Date:
- September 2017
- Bibcode:
- 2017EPSC...11..390S