The Biggest Volcano in The Solar System May Once Have Been an Island : ScienceAlert

The biggest volcano in the Solar System could once have been an island in a vast sea, new research has found.

"Here we show that the Olympus Mons giant volcano shares morphological similarities with active volcanic islands on Earth where major constructional slope breaks systematically occur at the sea-air transition in response to sharp lava viscosity contrasts," writes a team led by geoscientist ...

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Publisher: ScienceAlert
Date: 2023-07-27T07:13:27 00:00
Author: Michelle Starr
Twitter: @ScienceAlert
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