Lava fountains from the 1999 Tvashtar Catena fissure eruption on Io: Implications for dike emplacement mechanisms, eruption rates, and crustal structure
@article{Wilson2001LavaFF, title={Lava fountains from the 1999 Tvashtar Catena fissure eruption on Io: Implications for dike emplacement mechanisms, eruption rates, and crustal structure}, author={Lionel Wilson and James W. Head}, journal={Journal of Geophysical Research}, year={2001}, volume={106}, pages={32997-33004} }
The first direct evidence that patterns of basaltic eruptive activity may be very similar on Io and Earth was seen on November 26, 1999, when the solid-state imaging system on board the Galileo spacecraft obtained high-resolution images of a fissure eruption taking place in one of the calderas of the Tvashtar Catena complex. We analyzed the dynamics of the fissure eruption from the morphology of the lava fountains and pyroclastic deposits and derived an estimate of the eruption rate. Our best…
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