Fig. 2: Evolution of the composition of a freezing 1 km thick, 1 km deep reservoir through time.
From: Identifying signatures of past and present cryovolcanism on Europa
Here we show reservoirs injected from three different plausible ocean compositions corresponding to three different primordial Europa compositions22,37: a CI chondrites, b CM chondrites, and c a mix of chondrites scaled to distance to the Sun with the addition of cometary material. Salts present in very low concentration are not represented on the plots (see Methods for more information on input salt molalities). 20 eruptions occur between each vertical gray line.
