Building mountains on Ceres
Abstract
The large domes found on the dwarf planet Ceres may not result from cryovolcanism, but from solid-state flow analogous to salt doming on Earth, according to numerical simulations of gravitational loading.
- Publication:
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Nature Geoscience
- Pub Date:
- September 2019
- DOI:
- 10.1038/s41561-019-0459-7
- Bibcode:
- 2019NatGe..12..786K