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Thermal evolution of a differentiated Ganymede and implications for surface features

Thermal evolution models are presented for Ganymede, assuming a mostly differentiated initial state of a water ocean overlying a rock layer. The only heat sources are assumed to be primordial heat (provided by accretion) and the long-lived radiogenic heat sources in the rock component. As Ganymede cools, the ocean thins, and two ice layers develop, one above composed of ice I, and the other below
Authors
Randolph L. Kirk, David J. Stevenson

Hydromagnetic constraints on deep zonal flows in the giant planets

The observed zonal flows of the giant planets will, if they penetrate below the visible atmosphere, interact significantly with the planetary magnetic field outside the metallized core. The appropriate measure of this interaction is the Chandrasekhar number Q = H^2 /4πρνα^2 λ (H = radial component of the magnetic field, ν = eddy viscosity, λ = magnetic diffusivity, α^-1 = length scale on which λ v
Authors
Randolph L. Kirk, David J. Stevenson

Passive margins: U.S. Geological Survey Line 19 across the Georges Bank basin

Georges Bank is a shallow part of the Atlantic continental shelf southeast of New England (Emery and Uchupi, 1972, 1984). This bank, however, is merely the upper surface of several sedimentary basins overlying a block-faulted basement of igneous and metamorphic crystalline rock. Sedimentary rock forms a seaward-thickening cover that has accumulated in one main depocenter and several ancillary depr
Authors
Kim D. Klitgord, John S. Schlee, John A. Grow

Earthquakes July-August 1986

No abstract available.
Authors
Waverly J. Person

Earthquakes May-June 1986

No abstract available.
Authors
Waverly J. Person