Volcanic flow development at Alba Patera, Mars

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Flow Distribution, Lava, Mars Volcanoes, Lithosphere, Planetary Crusts, Stress Distribution, Mars, Alba Patera, Volcanism, Lava Flow, Eruptions, Energy, Maps, Age, Chronology, History, Features, Photographs, Morphology, Volcanoes, Diagrams, Size, Parameters, Composition, Volume, Thermal History, Procedure

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On the Alba Patera volcanic shield of Mars, a Hesperian flood-lava phase was followed by the extrusion of sheet lavas and tube-fed lavas emerging in many cases from the flanking fissures of rising domes. These events were followed by the eruption of additional sheet and tube-fed lavas from linear vents which formed complex flow fields. Later, Amazonian volcanism at Alba involved long, narrow flows from two complex summit calderas; the thermal energy outflow for some individual flows would have been substantially greater than the annual heat loss of the earth through volcanism, implying that the process of patera-building represented substantial Martian geological heat-loss during the planet's early volcanic-centralization stages.

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