• DOI:10.1029/2010JE003592
Corpus ID: 12655950

Mountains on Titan: Modeling and observations

@inproceedings{Mitri2010MountainsOT,
  title={Mountains on Titan: Modeling and observations},
  author={Giuseppe Mitri and M. T. Bland and A. P. Showman and Jani Radebaugh and Bryan W. Stiles and Rosaly M. C. Lopes and Jonathan I. Lunine and Robert T. Pappalardo},
  year={2010}
}

Giuseppe Mitri, M. T. Bland, +5 authors Robert T. Pappalardo

Published 2010

Geology

[1] We have developed a thermal model of Titan's interior to study changes in volume during partial freezing or melting of a subsurface ocean due to heat flux variations from the interior. We find that the long-term cooling of Titan can cause global volume contraction ΔV/V ∼0.01. We then simulate two-dimensional contractional deformation of Titan's icy lithosphere, finding that contractional deformation can produce tectonic activity and fold formation. Folds could potentially achieve a… CONTINUE READING

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