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Polygon patterns on Europa

The formation of polygon patterns in the development of crack networks in cooling basalt flows and similar contracting systems, and under natural conditions in an essentially unbounded basalt flow, are analyzed, and the characteristics of hexagonal and pentagonal patterns in isotropic stress fields are discussed.

Smalley, I. J.↗