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Suzuki et al. 2007
Suzuki, A., Kumagai, I., Nagata, Y., Kurita, K. and Barnouin-Jha, O.S. (2007). Modes of ejecta emplacement at Martian craters from laboratory experiments of an expanding vortex ring interacting with a particle layer. Geophysical Research Letters 34: doi: 10.1029/2006GL028372. issn: 0094-8276.

Ejecta morphologies of many Martian craters indicate fluidized emplacement which differs from ballistic emplacement in dry, airless environments. Double Layered Ejecta craters possess particularly interesting ejecta morphologies: two lobes and radial lineations on their surface, which probably result from gas-dominated radial flow during the emplacement. To examine how a radial flow interacts with surface particles to generate some of the observed morphologies on Mars, we have conducted water tank experiments in which a vortex ring encounters a particle layer. The threshold of particle motion and three interaction modes are described by two dimensionless numbers: particle Shields' parameter and particle Reynolds number. Our results show that gas-dominated flows are possible during cratering and could be used to constrain the ancient Martian environment from observations.

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Keywords
Planetary Sciences, Solid Surface Planets, Impact phenomena, cratering (6022, 8136), Planetary Sciences, Solid Surface Planets, Remote sensing, Planetary Sciences, Solar System Objects, Mars
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Geophysical Research Letters
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