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Scientific paper
Mar 1997
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997lpi....28..745k&link_type=abstract
Conference Paper, 28th Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, p. 745.
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Floods, Solar System, Glaciers, Lakes
Scientific paper
Earth and Mars have experienced many short-term, large-scale (i.e., cataclysmic) movements of huge quantities of water on their surfaces. These include the failures of glacier-dammed lakes, spillovers of lake water, and outbursts of aquifers. An analogous process of large-scale release of high-fluidity lavas appears to have occurred on Venus. Peak discharge rates for these cataclysmic floods have been estimated by various methods, tabulated for comparison. Differences in the calculated discharges are attributable predominantly to the scale of the channels. The natural ranges of other factors, such as slope, friction factor, and gravity (terrestrial vs Martian), are relatively small in comparison, and they do not account for major differences in the calculated discharges. The results indicate that, even at the immense scale of Martian outflow channels or for the unusual physics of Venusian lavas, channels are adjusted to the scale of cataclysmic fluid flows in a regular pattern of adjustment.
Baker Victor R.
Komatsu Goro
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