The role and distribution of impurities in ice-ocean world geophysical processes. (IMAGE)

Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth

The role and distribution of impurities in ice-ocean world geophysical processes.

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A) Salt/brine rich regions may be heterogeneously distributed within ice shells and associated with distinct geomorphological and geophysical features and processes (fractures, lenses, tectonics, cryovolcanism). Insets: the role interstitial brine plays in characterizing hydrologic regions within the shell (A1) and the entrainment of ocean-derived impurities at the ice-ocean interface (A2). Akin to magmatic and petrologic processes, even a small fraction of melt could have significant impacts on ice shell geophysical processes.

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