MICHAEL MANGA

Instructors: Chi Wang and Michael Manga

First meeting: Tuesday, January 21, 1:30 pm

Class meeting times: Wednesdays 2-4 pm

Room: McCone 55 (in the library)

Expectations: everyone involved in the class will contribute to an annotated bibliography, a compilation of available data, and a written summary of their topic

A preliminary syllabus(with readings):

• Introduction (Jan 28): Fundamentals of groundwater transport (Homework number 1)

• Manga, M. (2004) Martian floods at Cerberus Fossae can be produced by groundwater discharge, Geophysical Research Letters, col. 31, L02702, doi:10.1029/2003GL018958 pdf

• Introduction and the present water cycle (Feb 4)
• Reading from Water on Mars by Carr, chapters 1 and 2
• Global and local water cycle (Feb 11)
• Clifford, S.M., and T.J. Parker (2001) The evolution of the Martian hydrosphere: Implications for the fate of a primordial ocean and the current state of the northern plains. Icarus, vol. 154: 40-79. pdf
• Gaidos, E. (2001) Cryovolcanism and the recent flow of liquid water on Mars, Icarus, vol. 153, 218-223. pdf
• Each of the groups will present a summary of their topic and its relationship to ``What triggered big floods''
• Outflow channels (Feb 18)
• Reading from Water on Mars by Carr, chapter 3
• Megafloods (Feb 25)
• Baker, V.R. (20002) High-energy megafloods: planetary settings and sedimentary dynamics, Spec. Pubs. Inst. Ass. Sediment, vol. 32, 3-15. COPY IN THE MAILROOM
• Preliminary literature review to be completed
• Impact (Mar 5)
• Impact-induced melting of ice on Mars
• Stewart, Sarah and Tom Ahrens (2003) Shock Hugoniot of H2O ice, Gophys. Res. Lett., 1332, doi:10.1029/2002GL016789.
• Stewart, Sarah, Tom Ahrens, and John O'Keefe, Impact-induced melting of near-surface water-ice on Mars (preprint).
• Melosh, J. (1989) Impact Cratering: A Geologic Process, Oxford.
• Jones, A.P., D.G. Price, P.S. DeCarli, N. Proce, and R. Clegg (2003) Impact decompression melting: a possible trigger for impact induced volcanism and mantle hotspots? in Impact Markers in the Stratigraphic Record, eds.: C. Koeberl andf F. Martinez-Ruiz, p. 81-116, Springer.
• Magma-water interaction on Mars (Mar 10)
• Ogawa, Y., Y. Yamagishi, and K. Kurita (2003) Evaluation of melting process of the permafrost of Mars: Its implication for surface features, J. Geophys. Res., vol. 108, doiL10.1029/2002JE001886 pdf
• Magma-water interaction on Mars (Mar 17)
• Chapman, M.G., M.T. Gudmundsson, A.J. Russell and T.M. Hare (2003) Possible Juventae Chasma subice volcanic eruptions and Maja Valles ice breakout floods on Mars: Implications of Mars Global Surveyor crater densities, geomorphology, and topography, J. Geophys. Res., vol. 108, 5113, doi:10.1029/2002JE002009.
• Head, J.W., III, and L. Wilson (2002) Mars: a review aand synthesis of general environmejtas and geological settings of magma-H2O interactions, in Volcano-Ice Interaction on Earth and Mars, eds.: J.L. Smellie and M.G. Chapman, Geol. Soc London Sp. Publ., vol. 202, 27-57.
• Russell, P.S., and J.W. Head (2003) Elysium-Utopia flows as mega-lahars: a model of dike intrusion, cryosphere cracking, and water-sediment release, J. Geophys. Res., vol. 108, 5064, doi:10.1029/2002JE001995.
• Greeley, R., and B.D. Schneid (1991) Magma Generation on Mars: Amounts, Rates, and Comparisons with Earth, Moon, and Venus, Science, vol. 254, 996-998.
• Impact-induced liquefaction (March 31)
• Galli, P. (2000) New empirical relationships between magnitude and distance for liquefaction, Tectonophysics, vol. 324, 169-187.
• Dobry, R., K.H. Stokoe, R.S. Ladd, and T.L. Youd (1981) Liquefaction susceptibility from S-wave velocity, in: Insitu Testing to Evaluate Liquefaction Susceptibility, ASCE National Convention, St Louis, 1981
• Holzer, T.L., J.C. Tinsley, and T. Hank (1989) Dynamics of liquefaction during the 1987 Superstition Hills, California, earthquake, Science, vol. 244, 56-59.
• Wang, C.Y., D. Dreger, C.H. Wang, D. Mayeri and J. Berryman (2003) Field relations among ground motion, water level change and liquefaction for the 1999 Chi-Chi (Mw=7.5) earthquake, Taiwan, Geophys. Res. Lett., 1890, doi:10.1029/2003GL017601.
• Kayen, R., and 6 co-authors (2003) Geotechnical reconnaissance of the November 3, 2002 M7.9 Denali fault earthquake, Earthqu. Spectra, Special Volume on the November 3, 2002 M7.9 Denali fault earthquake.
• Valley Networks and ground ice(April 7)
• Carr, chapters 4-5
• Carr and Head (2003) Basal melting of snow on early Mars: A possible origin of some valley networks, Geophys. Res. Lett., vol. 30, 2245, doi:10.1029/2003GL018575 pdf
• Climate change and evolution of water (April 14)
• Carr, chapters 6-7
• Writing and discussion (April 21)
• Use this time to work in small groups and discuss progress -- this will be preparation time for presentations on April 28.
• Presentations, round 1 (April 28)
• Presentation of questions and answers (or at least, what was known, and has been learned, and what still needs to be understood)