TY - JOUR

T1 - Mildly explosive eruptions at Martian low-shield volcanoes

AU - Pieterek, Bartosz

AU - Jones, Thomas J.

PY - 2024/9/30

Y1 - 2024/9/30

N2 - Ongoing acquisition of Martian surface imagery constantly provides new opportunities to reveal previously undiscovered small-scale volcanic landforms, yielding critical insights into volcanic processes, and challenging existing inferences. Here, using the most recent, high-resolution topographical data, we mapped the accumulation of pyroclastic deposits occurring along the margins of several volcanic vents. They share morphological similarities with terrestrial volcanic deposits attributed to low-intensity lava fountaining occurring during mild explosive activity. Our identified, explosive volcanic deposits are associated with late Amazonian volcanic activity in Tharsis. The identification of these very recent (

AB - Ongoing acquisition of Martian surface imagery constantly provides new opportunities to reveal previously undiscovered small-scale volcanic landforms, yielding critical insights into volcanic processes, and challenging existing inferences. Here, using the most recent, high-resolution topographical data, we mapped the accumulation of pyroclastic deposits occurring along the margins of several volcanic vents. They share morphological similarities with terrestrial volcanic deposits attributed to low-intensity lava fountaining occurring during mild explosive activity. Our identified, explosive volcanic deposits are associated with late Amazonian volcanic activity in Tharsis. The identification of these very recent (

U2 - 10.1038/s43247-024-01697-w

DO - 10.1038/s43247-024-01697-w

M3 - Journal article

VL - 5

JO - Communications Earth & Environment

JF - Communications Earth & Environment

SN - 2662-4435

IS - 1

M1 - 542

ER -