Physics – Geophysics
Scientific paper
Jun 1991
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991pggp.rept..165c&link_type=abstract
In NASA, Washington, Reports of Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program, 1990 p 165-166 (SEE N92-10728 01-91)
Physics
Geophysics
Crystallization, Crystals, Fluid Flow, Heat Budget, Heating, Lava, Magma, Mars (Planet), Mars Surface, Rheology, Size Distribution, Temperature Distribution, Thermal Analysis, Ascent, Cooling, Correlation, Estimating, Latent Heat, Models, Morphology, Radiation Effects, Temperature Effects
Scientific paper
Thermal models of lava flows provide a way of estimating emplacement durations and eruption rates of planetary lava flows, which can help constrain magma ascent, rheology and composition. Most of the models that have been developed consider only the effects of cooling by radiation. However, heating due to crystallization can be a large component of the overall heat budget of a flow. Little is known about the amount of crystallization and latent heating during flow advance. Crystal size distribution (CSD) measurements were made to quantify and study the effects of crystallization in the 1984 Mauna Loa flow. For flows on Mars, we must assume that the amount of crystallization is similar to that in terrestrial flows and place minimum and maximum bounds on the latent heat effect. Unfortunately, as examples given here show, there can be anywhere from 0 to 60 percent crystallization during flow advance. To improve constraints for Martian flows, we need to search for correlations in terrestrial flows between flow morphology and the amount of crystallization during emplacement.
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