2015 GSA Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, USA (1-4 November 2015)

Paper No. 203-3
Presentation Time: 8:50 AM

TERRESTRIAL ANALOGS FOR LAVA FLOWS AND IMPACT MELT FLOWS ON THE MOON AND MARS


HAMILTON, Christopher W., Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, 1629 E. University Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85721, NEISH, Catherine D., Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond Street N., London, ON N6A 5B7, Canada and LEV, Einat, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, 61 Rte. 9w, Palisades, NY 10964, hamilton@lpl.arizona.edu

High resolution stereo-derived topography of the Moon, from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) Narrow Angle Camera (NAC), and Mars, from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera, provides new insight into the geomorphology and emplacement processes associated with lava flows and impact melt flows on these planetary bodies. We provide an overview of these flow types using a facies-based geological mapping approach to examine their similarities and differences. We also explore analogous structures within terrestrial lava flows in Hawaii and Iceland using field-based observations and supporting digital terrain models (DTMs) generated using multi-view stereo-photogrammetry.