Gas-driven water volcanism in the resurfacing of Europa

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Jan 1988

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1988icar...73...66c&link_type=abstract

Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035), vol. 73, Jan. 1988, p. 66-79.

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Carbon Dioxide, Crack Propagation, Elastic Deformation, Land Ice, Planetary Surfaces, Volcanology, Europe, Fracture Mechanics, Lunar Albedo, Jupiter, Satellites, Europa, Volcanism, Water, Gases, Resurfacing, Volatiles, Models, Ice, Thickness, Parameters, Cracks, Stress, Fracturing, Eruptions, Calculations, Diagrams, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Monoxide, Sulfur Dioxide, Methane

Scientific paper

The creation of pathways for resurfacing of water or volatiles in a model of Europa in which an ocean underlies a thin ice shell is subjected to linear elastic fracture mechanical treatment. The gas-filled portion of the upward-propagating cracks pinches off from the water-filled portion, and may rapidly rise to the surface. The eruption thus generated is at first dominated by gas, but may subsequently include a less extended foam eruption; there may be no direct relationship between this resurfacing phenomenon and the geological features thus far noted on the Europa surface.

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