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Mars has the largest volcanoes in the solar system, including Olympus Mons which is over 3 times taller than Earth's largest volcano, Mauna Loa. Mars lacks tectonic plate movements which allows volcanoes to remain stationary over hotspots for long periods, building extremely large shield volcanoes. In contrast, most Earth volcanoes form at plate boundaries. Mars also has a lower gravity and deeper magma chambers which allow larger volcanoes to form. The lack of crustal movement on Mars leads to volcanoes that dwarf those on Earth.
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- 1. Mars vs Earth Planetary showdown of the ages: Volcanic style
- 2. Mar’s biography • Mars formed 4.6 billion years ago, within the same time as Earth’s formation. • Mars is the second smallest planet, and about half the size of Earth. • Mars has the largest volcanoes of any of the eight planetary bodies, including their satellites • It has the second highest number of volcanoes; Venus has the most. • Mars’s gravity is only 38% of Earth’s, which results in its large volcanoes
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- 10. Olympus Mons • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BPNVtCgAbk&fe ature=related • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvPbUVPxUus&fe ature=related
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- 13. The Hotspots • Volcanoes on Mars are much wider and taller than Earths, but have similar ratios of height to base radius
- 14. Tectonic Movement and formation of Volcanoes on Mars • Mars is a much smaller geologically active world than Earth • It is less tectonically active, it does not have any drifting tectonic plates • Mars does not have crustal drift, the volcanic hot spot remains under the same mountain resulting in extremely large mountains, such as Olympus Mons
- 15. Tectonic Plate Movement and Formation of Volcanoes on Earth • Most volcanoes form near convergent plate boundaries, such as the Pacific Ring of Fire (68% of Earth’s Volcanoes) • Earth’s hot spot theory on volcano formation • Oceanic divergent plate boundaries • Continental convergent plate boundaries • Earths “hotspots”
- 16. Mars •Red areas shows the North magnetic fields •Blue areas shows the South magnetic fields
- 17. Citations • Hamilton, C. (1995). Martian volcanoes. Retrieved from http://www.solarviews.com/eng/marsvolc.htm • Tayfun Oner, A. (1997). Retrieved from http://www.solarviews.com/cap/mars/voly1.htm • Greetings from mars. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/ast121/lectures/lec12.html • Wilson, Lionel; Head, James W. (1994). "Mars: Review and Analysis of Volcanic Eruption Theory and Relationships to Observed Landforms". Rev. Geophys. 32(3): 221–263 • Solomon, Sean C.; Head, James W. (1982). "Evolution of the Tharsis Province of Mars: The Importance of Heterogeneous Lithospheric Thickness and Volcanic Construction". J. Geophys. Res. 87 (B12): 9755– 9774.
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