Factors influencing the eruption of water-based magmas through Europa's ice crust

Details Factors influencing the eruption of water-based magmas through Europa's ice crust Factors influencing the eruption of water-based magmas through Europa's ice crust

Mar 1997

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997lpi....28.1567w&link_type=abstract

Conference Paper, 28th Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, p. 565.

Physics

Icy Satellites, Europa, Satellite Surfaces, Planetary Crusts, Magma, Ground Water, Silicates, Volcanoes, Density Measurement, Ejecta

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We explore the factors which control the melting of ice by silicate magmas at the base of the ice crust of Europa and the ability of the resulting fluids, which may contain some proportion of fragmented silicate material, to reach the surface through dikes. We find that fluids carrying significant proportions of silicate clasts can only reach the surface if the ice layer is less than about 15 km. Fluid discharge rates up to 2 x 10 exp 4 cu m/s from fissure vents up to about 15 km long are likely.

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