Giant Lava Flows (IMAGE)

Brown University

Giant Lava Flows

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Lava flows on Mercury more than 3.5 billion years ago -- a mile deep in places -- would have covered nearly 60 percent of the continental United States.

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Image courtesy of James Head research group, Brown University

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