Rapid rounding of icy clasts during simulated fluvial transport in the Titan Tumbler

Maue, A. D.; Levy, J. S.; Burr, D. M.; Matulka, Patrick R.; Nathan, Erica

doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2021.114831

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“…S10 in Maue et al. [4] ). Two experiments (P100ig94nevaA and P100ig55nevaA) involved disaggregating tempered clasts into nonequant shapes before tumbling to expedite the initial fragmentation.…”

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confidence: 91%

“…More details on the influence of these parameters and other sources of error in determining roundness indices can be found in the Supplementary Material of Maue et al. [4] .…”

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confidence: 99%

“… These data benefit researchers interested in the breakdown of sediment on Titan or how it might compare to that on other planetary bodies. These data can be used with analytical methods not applied in the Icarus research article [ 4 ] to quantify aspects such as the distance travelled, abrasion rate, and/or clast shape in different ways. Future experiments may benefit from the description of issues encountered in the development and use of this cryogenic version of a classic instrument in sedimentary geology.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These data can be used with analytical methods not applied in the Icarus research article [ 4 ] to quantify aspects such as the distance travelled, abrasion rate, and/or clast shape in different ways.…”

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Sieved mass and shape data from simulated fluvial transport of icy clasts in the Titan Tumbler

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Data in this article are related to the research article “Rapid rounding of icy clasts during simulated fluvial transport in the Titan Tumbler”. Whereas that research focused on low-temperature ice abrasion in the context of Saturn's moon Titan, the full dataset on experiments testing the breakdown of water ice under a variety of tested conditions is reported in this article. Following the work of previous terrestrial studies, these experiments utilize tumblers that produce collisions to simulate some aspects of mechanical weathering during fluvial transport. Data files publicly available on Mendeley Data include measures of mass and roundness of clasts of specific grain sizes as well as raw images, videos, and the MATLAB script used for analysis. In this article, the varying conditions of temperature, initial clast size, shape, ice type, number of clasts for each of the 42 experiments are reported, along with best-fit models of abrasion typically applied in terrestrial tumbler studies. This text describes the methodology, including the development of icy clasts, operation of the tumblers, measurement of clast properties, calculation of derived parameters, and application of abrasion models. Exploration of various approaches to tumbler development and data acquisition are reported to benefit future researchers in this area. Experiments on the abrasion of different materials benefit from cross-comparison, which is also a fundamental aspect of planetary science.

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confidence: 91%

“…More details on the influence of these parameters and other sources of error in determining roundness indices can be found in the Supplementary Material of Maue et al. [4] .…”

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confidence: 99%

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“…Most of the work published on the subject reproduces fluvial abrasion in a kind of tumbling mill (e.g., [9][10][11][12]) or a flume (e.g., [2,13]), comparing it to the phenomenon occurring in nature according to the distances travelled. Besides the investigation of fluvial abrasion, tumbling mills and annular flumes are used for abrasion experiments in a variety of other applications, such as (but not limited to) material sciences (e.g., [14,15]), planetary sciences (e.g., [16,17]), density current studies (e.g., [18,19]), or archaeological and anthropological sciences (e.g., [20][21][22]).…”

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Comparison of Different-Energy-Level Abrasion in Los Angeles and Micro-Deval Apparatuses Using Mass Loss and Rounding of Sediment Particles

2023

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During the routing of coarse particles in sedimentary environments, the particles are subjected to abrasion, leading to mass loss and changes in the particles’ morphology. The particles become more spherical, rounded, and smooth. Here, particles’ (quarried dolomite) morphological evolution of three shape aspects (form, roundness, and texture) and the mass decreases obtained in two sets of experiments in two different setups are presented. Abrasion experiments were carried out in cycles. Between cycles, morphological parameters and mass losses were tracked. Abrasion was investigated with consideration of the energy and power the apparatuses used that the material was subjected to, in contrast to the often-used estimated travel distances or duration of the abrasion. The goal was to examine if the two setups can be comparable and inter-transferrable, also to other similar abrasion setups. The experimental equipment, a micro-Deval apparatus and a Los Angeles machine, are standardised and widely used. The applied tests were modified. Morphological/shape parameters were determined using dynamic image analysis. The results of the tests show the influence of machine power (energy introduction rate) on mass loss and morphological change. Los Angeles (high-energy) abrasion resulted in higher mass loss values than micro-Deval (low-energy) abrasion. The mass loss results can be brought to comparable values by a newly introduced mass- and power-dependent coefficient. Low-energy abrasion resulted in faster rounding than high-energy abrasion, whereas form stayed nearly the same. In contrast, form changed rapidly during high-energy abrasion.

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Sediment-moving winds and abrasion on Titan: Implications for yardangs

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Rapid rounding of icy clasts during simulated fluvial transport in the Titan Tumbler

Cited by 3 publications

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Sieved mass and shape data from simulated fluvial transport of icy clasts in the Titan Tumbler

Sieved mass and shape data from simulated fluvial transport of icy clasts in the Titan Tumbler

Comparison of Different-Energy-Level Abrasion in Los Angeles and Micro-Deval Apparatuses Using Mass Loss and Rounding of Sediment Particles

Sediment-moving winds and abrasion on Titan: Implications for yardangs

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