Carbon Dioxide Hydrate and Floods on Mars

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Feb 1974

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1974sci...183..654m&link_type=abstract

Science, Volume 183, Issue 4125, pp. 654-656

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Ground ice on Mars probably consists largely of carbon dioxide hydrate, CO2\cdot 6H2O. This hydrate dissociates upon release of pressure at temperatures between 0 degrees and 10 degrees C. The heat capacity of the ground would be sufficient to produce up to 4 percent (by volume) of water at a rate equal to that at which it can be drained away. Catastrophic dissociation of carbon dioxide hydrate during some past epoch when the near surface temperature was in this range would have produced chaotic terrain and flood channels.

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