Magma generation on Mars: Estimated volumes through time

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Jun 1991

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991pggp.rept..163g&link_type=abstract

In NASA, Washington, Reports of Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program, 1990 p 163-164 (SEE N92-10728 01-91)

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Geophysics

Estimating, Fluid Flow, Lava, Magma, Mars Surface, Mars Volcanoes, Photogeology, Photomapping, Viking Mars Program, Volcanology, Chemical Analysis, Craters, Deposits, Estimates, Meteorites, Rocks, Water

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Images of volcanoes and lava flows, chemical analysis by the Viking landers, and studies of meteorites show that volcanism has played an important role in the evolution of Mars. Photogeologic mapping suggests that half of Mars' surface is covered with volcanic materials. Here, researchers present results from new mappings, including estimates of volcanic deposit thicknesses based on partly buried and buried impact craters using the technique of DeHon. The researchers infer the volumes of possible associated plutonic rocks and derive the volumes of magmas on Mars generated in its post-crustal formation history. Also considered is the amount of juvenile water that might have exsolved from the magma through time.

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