Absence of silicic volcanism on Mars - Implications for crustal composition and volatile abundance

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Nov 1982

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1982jgr....87.9881f&link_type=abstract

(International Colloquium on Mars, 3rd: Dedicated to Thomas A. Mutch /1931-1980/, Pasadena, CA, Aug. 30-Sept. 2, 1982.) Journal

Physics

43

Cones (Volcanoes), Mars Volcanoes, Planetary Composition, Planetary Crusts, Planetary Mantles, Volcanology, Abundance, Magma, Mars Photographs, Photogeology, Planetary Evolution, Planetary Geology, Planetary Structure, Silicon Dioxide

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It is believed that explosive basic to ultrabasic eruptions may be responsible for small cinder conelike features on Mars and perhaps for the ancient flank-scoured paterae. Eruptions of this type may have been driven by near-surface water/ice-magma interactions or volatile rich magmas. Noting that the paterae represent a unique style of volcanism that stopped approximately 2 b.y. ago, it is suggested that the volatiles associated with these features were derived from mantle sources and that the cessation of patera formation may coincide with the termination of the period of maximum planetary degassing. Since approximately 2 b.y. ago volcanism has been dominantly effusive, except for such minor explosive ash events as those that blanketed part of the summit of Hecates Tholus. It is proposed that such eruptions were driven by volatiles generated by differentiation of a magma chamber, similar to Icelandic explosive eruptions.

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