Formation of Grooved Terrain on Ganymede via Extensional Instability: Regional Constraints on Thermal Gradients and Strain Rate

Details Formation of Grooved Terrain on Ganymede via Extensional Instability: Regional Constraints on Thermal Gradients and Strain Rate Formation of Grooved Terrain on Ganymede via Extensional Instability: Regional Constraints on Thermal Gradients and Strain Rate

Mar 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002lpi....33.1865d&link_type=abstract

33rd Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, March 11-15, 2002, Houston, Texas, abstract no.1865

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We update our model of grooved terrain formation with the latest ice
rheologies and apply it to bright and dark terrains on Ganymede, finding
that groove formation is indeed possible, but only if thermal gradients
are quite high (>10 K/km).

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