Submarine Analogs to Venusian Pancake Domes

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Oct 1995

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995georl..22.2781b&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 22, p. 2781

Physics

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Venus (Planet), Planetary Structure, Seamounts, Morphology, Volcanoes, Temperature Distribution, Shapes, Lava, Basalt

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The morphology and dimensions of the large diameter, steep-sided, flat-topped "pancake domes" on Venus make them unlike any type of terrestrial subaerial volcano. Comparisons between images of Hawaiian seamounts and pancake domes show similarities in shapes and secondary features. The morphometry of pancake domes is closer to that of Pacific seamounts than subaerial lava domes. Considering both morphology and morphometry, seamounts seem a better analog to the pancake domes. The control of volatile exsolution by pressure on Venus and the seafloor can cause lavas to have similar viscosities and densities, although the latter will be counteracted by high buoyancy underwater. However, analogous effects of the Venusian and seafloor alone are probably not sufficient to produce similar volcanoes. Rather, Venusian lavas of various compositions may behave like basalt on the seafloor if appropriate rates and modes of extrusion and planetary thermal structure are also considered.

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