The heat flow history of Mars from lithospheric strength

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Oct 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011epsc.conf.1203r&link_type=abstract

EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011, held 2-7 October 2011 in Nantes, France. http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc-dps2011, p.1203

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Lithospheric strength can be used to estimate the heat flow at the time when a given region was deformed, allowing us to constrain the thermal evolution of a planetary body [1,2]. Here we report carefully calculated paleo-heat flow for 22 martian regions of different periods and geological context (Fig. 1), derived from effective elastic thicknesses [1-5] or from faulting depth beneath large thrust faults [6,7], by considering regional radioactive element abundances [8], and realistic thermal conductivities for the crust and mantle lithosphere [9,10]. For the calculations from the effective elastic thickness of the lithosphere we also consider the respective contributions of crust and mantle lithosphere to the total lithospheric strength, along with adequate flow laws [see 10].

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