The rate of granule ripple movement on Earth and Mars

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Sep 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009icar..203...71z&link_type=abstract

Icarus, Volume 203, Issue 1, p. 71-76.

Physics

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The rate of movement for 3- and 10-cm-high granule ripples was documented in September of 2006 at Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve during a particularly strong wind event. Impact creep induced by saltating sand caused ˜24 granules min-1 to cross each cm of crest length during wind that averaged ˜9 m s-1 (at a height well above 1 m), which is substantially larger than the threshold for saltation of sand. Extension of this documented granule movement rate to Mars suggests that a 25-cm-high granule ripple should require from hundreds to thousands of Earth-years to move 1 cm under present atmospheric conditions.

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