Quota Studentships
Lead Research Organisation:
Lancaster University
Department Name: Lancaster Environment Centre
Abstract
Doctoral Training Partnerships: a range of postgraduate training is funded by the Research Councils. For information on current funding routes, see the common terminology at https://www.ukri.org/apply-for-funding/how-we-fund-studentships/. Training grants may be to one organisation or to a consortia of research organisations. This portal will show the lead organisation only.
People |
ORCID iD |
| Andrew Binley (Training Grant Holder) |
Publications
Wilson L
(2009)
Fissure eruptions in Tharsis, Mars: Implications for eruption conditions and magma sources
in Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
| Description | The upper few kilometres of Mars' crust is colder than the freezing temperature of water, forming a cryosphere. The presence of ice in crustal pore space, and liquid water at deeper, warmer levels, is hypothesised in order to explain surface geomorphology strongly linked to the flow of water. Igneous activity is also present within the martian crust, manifesting as volcanic processes at the solid surface. This project concerns the interaction between hot igneous intrusion and cold cryosphere. We have discovered that there is more than sufficient heat energy within a typical igneous intrusion to melt cryospheric ice to the solid surface and hence generate geomorphological features. Heat transfer between hot intruded magma and the cryosphere falls in to a number of regimes including conduction, convection and advection that control heat transfer in both vertical and horizontal directions. |
| Exploitation Route | These findings are currently being published and are, therefore, not yet in the public domain to be taken forward or used. |
| Sectors | Environment |
| Description | These findings are currently being published and are, therefore, not yet in the public domain to be used. |
| Description | University of Hawai'i at Manoa |
| Organisation | University of Hawaii |
| Department | Institute of Geophysics and Planetology |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Ongoing collaboration with Prof. Peter Mouginis-Mark and his colleagues at the Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, part of the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, on volcano-cryosphere interactions on Mars. |
| Collaborator Contribution | co-authorship and develoment of ideas and concepts |
| Impact | co-authorship in research outputs |
| Start Year | 2007 |