Pressurized groundwater outflow experiments and numerical modeling for outflow channels on Mars

Wouter Marra (1) , Ernst Hauber (2) , Stuart Mclelland (3) , Brendan Murphy , Daniel Parsons , Susan Conway (4) , Manuel Roda , Rob Govers , Maarten Kleinhans (1)

1 Department of Earth Sciences [Utrecht]
2 DLR - German Aerospace Center
3 University of Hull [United Kingdom]
4 School of Physical Sciences - Open University

• Different groundwater pressures result in different outflow processes • These range from seepage, fissure flow to the eruption of subsurface reservoirs • Such reservoirs created by flexure can explain extreme outflow events on Mars

Domains: Planetology; Geomorphology

Wouter Marra, Ernst Hauber, Stuart Mclelland, Brendan Murphy, Daniel Parsons, et al.. Pressurized groundwater outflow experiments and numerical modeling for outflow channels on Mars. Journal of Geophysical Research. Planets, 2014, 119 (12), pp.2668-2693. ⟨10.1002/2014JE004701⟩. ⟨insu-02276022⟩