Lava flow eruption conditions in the Tharsis Volcanic Province on Mars

The data were collected from derived products of instruments on
NASA missions orbiting Mars accessed through the Java
Mission-planning and Analysis for Remote Sensing (JMARS) GIS
platform. Our dataset exists in the form of tables and Microsoft
Excel spreadsheets, with a data volume of <2 MB.
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The dataset generated represents measured flow dimensions (i.e.,
length, width, and slope) and subsequent calculated flow
dimensions (i.e., volume and mass) for 40 lava flows observed in
the Tharsis volcanic province on Mars. The raw data can be
compared to known terrestrial data and fed through existing and
future models to constrain flow emplacement conditions. This
dataset represents one of the larger samples of observed Martian
lava flows analyzed with high resolution images (e.g., CTX and
HiRISE) and moderate to high resolution DEM data (e.g., MOLA and
HRSC).
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In addition to the raw data, this dataset also contains the
results of two model applications. We used these data to obtain
eruption rate and/or rheological parameters using models
described in the main text of Peters et al. (in review) derived
from the following references (e.g., Fink and Griffiths, 1990;
1992; Hiesinger et al., 2007; Baloga and Glaze, 2008). A
combination of total volume estimated from the DEMs and
calculated eruption rate resulted in eruption durations are also
supplied in the dataset.