New study of Europa may explain mysterious ice domes, places to search for evidence of life
...uropa may help explain the origin of the giant ice domes peppering its surface and the implications for dis...tudent Amy Barr previously believed the mysterious domes may be formed by blobs of ice from the interior of the frozen shell that were being pushed upward by...... 4. Repeated episodes of growth and destruction of domes have triggered avalanches and pyroclastic flows. They alternated with explosive events, which emplaced ignimbrites, probably related to the formation of two calderas, and pyroclastic flows, surges, and tephra falls. On average, pumice falls occurred...