Liquid CO2 breakout and the formation of recent small gullies on Mars

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Apr 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001georl..28.1283m&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 28, Issue 7, p. 1283-1286

Physics

78

Planetology: Solid Surface Planets: Atmospheres-Composition And Chemistry, Planetology: Solid Surface Planets: Composition, Planetology: Solid Surface Planets: Erosion And Weathering, Planetology: Solar System Objects: Mars

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We show that the action of a CO2 suspended flow could have produced the recent small gullies on Mars, and, hence, that liquid water is not required. The model involves the build-up of a liquid-CO2 aquifer behind and below a dry-ice barrier (dam/cap rock) in the pore spaces a few meters into the rock from the cliff face and on order of a hundred meters below the top of the cliff brink surface. Seasonal (or obliquity-cycle-seasonal) heating causes pinching out of the dry-ice barrier and rapid release of the liquid CO2. Erosion of the gullies occurs as the rapid vaporization of the liquid CO2 with entrainment of rock and clathrate-hydrate ice produces a density flow analogous to a terrestrial nue ardente.

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