Impact-Induced Mantle Dynamics on Mars

Details Impact-Induced Mantle Dynamics on Mars Impact-Induced Mantle Dynamics on Mars

Mar 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011lpi....42.1205r&link_type=abstract

42nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, held March 7–11, 2011 at The Woodlands, Texas. LPI Contribution No. 1608, p.1205

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Heating of the martian mantle by a large basin-forming impact (e.g.,
Utopia) drives long-lived degree-1 mantle convection with the upwelling
beneath the impact site. The heat flux recovers fastest if the impact
occurs over a preexisting upwelling.

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