What can Planetary Ice Shells Teach Us about Ocean Mixing and Life, and Why Salt Matters

arXiv:2608.07826 · astro-ph.EP · Submitted 2026-08-07 · Read on arXiv

Nicole Shibley

astro-ph.EP

Submitted: 2026-08-07

Updated: 2026-08-11

Comments: 12 pages, 2 figures, submitted

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Grounding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• alpha — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode

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