Sulfur volcanoes on Io

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Jul 1979

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1979sci...205..397c&link_type=abstract

Science, vol. 205, July 27, 1979, p. 397, 398.

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Carbonaceous Chondrites, Io, Sulfur, Volcanoes, Solar System, Volatility, Volcanology, Io, Jupiter, Satellites, Volcanoes, Sulfur, Outgassing, Volcanism, C1 Chondrites, Carbonaceous Chondrites, Volatile Elements, Gases, Water, Carbon Dioxide

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Widespread volcanism on Jupiter's satellite Io, if it occurred over the age of the solar system, would quickly reduce the inventory of most common volatiles needed to drive such volcanism. One exception is the volatile element sulfur. It is therefore postulated that sulfur is the driving volatile for Ionian volcanism. Its presence is consistent with a carbonaceous-chondrite-like bulk composition for the original material that formed Io 4.5 billion years ago. The ubiquity of sulfur on Io today demonstrates the importance of this element in the processes that formed its surface.

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