DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5508674
title: Data of Self-Weight Consolidation Process of Water-Saturated Deltas on Mars and Earth

description: <strong>Data of the paper "Self-Weight Consolidation Process of Water-Saturated Deltas on Mars and Earth".</strong> This dataset includes five tables. <strong>Table S1</strong> is the original data of the measurements of the moisture content <em>w</em><sub>0</sub>, <strong>Table S2</strong> is the original data of the pycnometer test, which was conducted to obtain the specific gravity <em>G</em><sub>s</sub> of our samples, <strong>Table S3</strong> is the original data of the consolidation experiments, <strong>Table S4</strong> is the original data of the permeability experiments, and <strong>Table S</strong><strong>5</strong> is the martian global delta relief obtained by us based on MOLA data, which is used as the maximum thickness of a delta. <strong>Table S1.</strong> The original data of the measurements of the moisture content <em>w</em><sub>0</sub>. The initial void ratio is calculated by equation (1). <em>A'</em> is the inner area of the consolidation container. <strong>Table S2.</strong> The original data of the pycnometer test, which was conducted to obtain the specific gravity <em>G</em><sub>s</sub> of our samples. The specific gravity <em>G</em><sub>s </sub>can be derived from <em>m</em><sub>d</sub><em>G</em><sub>wT</sub> /(<em>m</em><sub>bw+</sub><em>m</em><sub>d+</sub><em>m</em><sub>bws</sub>), where <em>m</em><sub>d </sub>is the samples’ dry mass, <em>m</em><sub>bw </sub>is the total mass of the pycnometer and water,<em> m</em><sub>bws </sub>is the total mass of the pycnometer, water and samples, and <em>G</em><sub>wT</sub> is the specific gravity of pure water at<em> T </em>℃. <strong>Table S3.</strong> The original data of consolidation experiments of our samples. The void ratio is calculated by equation (2). <strong>Table S4. </strong>The original data of permeability experiments of our samples. The hydraulic conductivity <em>K </em>was calculated by equations (3) and (4). The inner area of the consolidation container is 30 cm<sup>2</sup>, the cross-sectional area<em> a' </em>of the water pipe is 0.89286 cm<sup>2</sup>, and the seepage path length <em>L</em> equals the sample initial height <em>h</em><sub>0</sub> minus the accumulated height <em>Σ</em>Δ<em>h</em><sub>i</sub>. <em>t</em>1 and <em>t</em>2<sub> </sub>are the first and the second test results of time-taken for water dropping from <em>H</em><sub>1</sub> to <em>H</em><sub>2</sub>, respectively. <em>t</em> is the average of <em>t</em>1 and <em>t</em>2. <em>T</em><em>’</em> is the temperature during the experiments. Note: we only test the <em>T</em><em>’</em> of the third group and here we used the average of <em>T’ </em>(=12.5℃) to represent the temperature of all three parallel groups during the experiments. It’s acceptable because <em>T’</em> varies slightly throughout the experiments, whose fluctuations hardly affect the order of magnitude of the hydraulic conductivity <em>K</em>. The seepage velocity <em>v</em>=<em>Q</em>/<em>A’t</em>, in which <em>Q</em> is the volume of water that seeps out of the samples. <strong>Table S5.</strong> The delta relief of a delta. The locations of martian deltas are based on the database of Wilson et al. (2021)