Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Sep 1996
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996dps....28.2309k&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #28, #23.09; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 28, p.1153
Mathematics
Logic
Scientific paper
Galileo images of Io show red, orange, brown, tan, yellow, green, white, and black regions. Color changes reported on Io represent a redistribution of surface materials and are related to Io's dynamic geologic and geochemical processes. Most Ionian colors and spectral features are attributable to a heterogeneous cover of quenched forms of pure elemental sulfur and sulfur dioxide frost perhaps with sodium pentasulfide and polysulfur oxides. However, the olive greens and greenish tans of some areas require something additional. S-associated elements abundant in meteorites and comets (e.g., percentage amounts of C, P, and Cl as CS2, P4S10, and SCl2, and smaller traces of As, Se, and others), could be important impurities on Io. These elements follow S in many terrestrial materials, such as the metallic core, massive sulfide deposits, carbonatite lavas, evaporite salts, and hydrothermal sublimates; it is doubtful that Io's sulfurous crust would somehow have excluded or lost all of these elements. Chalcophile impurities, acting through modifications of sulfur polymer chain structures, could have important effects on spectroscopic reflectance, sulfur volcanic flow rheology, subsurface flow of molten sulfur in magmatic plumbing, and crustal tectonics. We have started collection and analysis of native sulfur and related minerals obtained from diverse terrestrial environments and are analyzing these substances (particularly materials whose colors resemble Io's) for major and trace elements and reflectance from 0.23 to 23 microns. We will investigate whether expected correlations of chemical and spectroscopic parameters of these substances might explain some Io observations. Acknowledgements. JSK thanks P. Delmelle and C. Oppenheimer for donating samples for this study, and R.A. Hutchinson and the National Park Service for facilitating the collection of sulfur samples from Yellowstone National Park.
Kargel Jeffrey S.
Nash Douglas B.
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