Fossilcollector Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Giant Ammonites on Mars! http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/04/120426-mars-new-lava-coils-volcanoes-ice-life-space-science/ Alright, not really, but one can certainly dream... -Yinan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave pom Allen Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Very curious indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgrilusHunter Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Here's a link showing one of these coils from Hawaii. Very interesting and something I had never heard of before, thanks for posting. http://www.space.com/15446-mars-lava-volcanoes.html "They ... savoured the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were only ignorant of ordinary things." -- Terry Pratchett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxytropidoceras Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 (edited) AgrilusHunter wrote, " Here's a link showing one of these coils from Hawaii. Very interesting and something I had never heard of before, thanks for posting. http://www.space.com...-volcanoes.html " http://i.space.com/i....jpg?1335461444 This image is a detailed version of Figure 10 (Surface texture of December 31, 1974 pahoehoe northeast of Pu'u Koa'e. Note the 10-m diameter "lava coil" in the right middle of the photo. USGS photo by Elliot Endo.) in: Lockwood, J. P.; R. I. Tilling, R. T. Holcomb, F. W. Klein, A. T. Okamura, and D. W. Peterson, 1999, Magma migration and resupply during the 1974 summit eruptions of Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii. Professional Paper no. 1613. , United States Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia. http://pubs.er.usgs....lication/pp1613 PDF file at http://pubs.usgs.gov...1613/report.pdf There are pictures of various examples of such lava coils in Hawaiian lava flows and a detailed discussion of their origin in: Peck, D. L., 1966, Lava coils of some historic flows, Hawaii. in pp. B148-B152, Geological Survey Research 1966 Chapter B. Professional Paper no. 550-B. United States Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia. http://pubs.er.usgs....lication/pp550B PDF file at http://pubs.usgs.gov...550b/report.pdf The press release for this story is: Graduate Student Discovers New Form of Lava Flow on Mars, Arizona State University College, April 25, 2012, http://www.newswise....va-flow-on-mars The paper is: Ryan, A. J., and P. R. Christensen, 2012, Coils and Polygonal Crust in the Athabasca Valles Region, Mars, as Evidence for a Volcanic History. Science, vol. 336, no. 6080, pp. 449-452. http://www.sciencema...nt/336/6080/449 Best wishes, Paul H. Edited April 27, 2012 by Oxytropidoceras Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgrilusHunter Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Thanks Paul, those links are great! "They ... savoured the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were only ignorant of ordinary things." -- Terry Pratchett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scylla Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Cool lava (or should I say hot?) Speaking about Martian ammos... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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