Floods on Mars released from groundwater by impact |
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| Authors: | Chi-yuen Wang Alex Wong |
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| Institution: | Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA |
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| Abstract: | On Earth, large earthquakes commonly cause saturated soils to liquefy and streamflow to increase. We suggest that meteoritic impacts on Mars may have repeatedly caused similar liquefaction to enable violent eruption of groundwater. The amount of erupted water may be comparable to that required to produce catastrophic floods and to form outflow channels. |
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| Keywords: | Liquefaction Impacts Chaos |
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