書誌事項
- 公開日
- 2017-10-03
- 権利情報
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- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
- DOI
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- 10.1038/s41467-017-00513-8
- 公開者
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC
説明
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Mars hosts the solar system’s largest volcanoes. Although their size and impact crater density indicate continued activity over billions of years, their formation rates are poorly understood. Here we quantify the growth rate of a Martian volcano by<jats:sup>40</jats:sup>Ar/<jats:sup>39</jats:sup>Ar and cosmogenic exposure dating of six nakhlites, meteorites that were ejected from Mars by a single impact event at 10.7 ± 0.8 Ma (2<jats:italic>σ</jats:italic>). We find that the nakhlites sample a layered volcanic sequence with at least four discrete eruptive events spanning 93 ± 12 Ma (1416 ± 7 Ma to 1322 ± 10 Ma (2<jats:italic>σ</jats:italic>)). A non-radiogenic trapped<jats:sup>40</jats:sup>Ar/<jats:sup>36</jats:sup>Ar value of 1511 ± 74 (2<jats:italic>σ</jats:italic>) provides a precise and robust constraint for the mid-Amazonian Martian atmosphere. Our data show that the nakhlite-source volcano grew at a rate of ca. 0.4–0.7 m Ma<jats:sup>−1</jats:sup>—three orders of magnitude slower than comparable volcanoes on Earth, and necessitating that Mars was far more volcanically active earlier in its history.</jats:p>
収録刊行物
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- Nature Communications
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Nature Communications 8 (1), 2017-10-03
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
