Tethys: Lithospheric thickness and heat flux from flexurally supported topography at Ithaca Chasma

Details Tethys: Lithospheric thickness and heat flux from flexurally supported topography at Ithaca Chasma Tethys: Lithospheric thickness and heat flux from flexurally supported topography at Ithaca Chasma

Nov 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007georl..3421203g&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 34, Issue 21, CiteID L21203

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Planetary Sciences: Solar System Objects: Saturnian Satellites, Planetary Sciences: Solid Surface Planets: Heat Flow, Planetary Sciences: Solid Surface Planets: Tectonics (8149)

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We have identified flexural uplift along the flanks of Tethys' Ithaca Chasma using Cassini stereo-derived topography. Modeling the topography as a broken elastic plate yields an effective elastic lithospheric thickness in the range of 5-7 km and, combined with the strength envelope of the lithosphere, a mechanical lithospheric thickness of 16-20 km. Surface heat fluxes are 18-30 mW/m2 for adopted strain rates of 10-17-10-14 s-1. These heat fluxes are more than 4 times higher than those calculated from thermal history models of Tethys and indicate a strongly enhanced local heat flux associated with the formation of Ithaca Chasma. We use crater-size frequency counts and a lunar-like impact chronology to fix the time of formation of Ithaca Chasma at 4 Ga from present-day. Ithaca Chasma predates the Odysseus basin and thus could not have been formed by this impact feature.

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