Charon tectonics

New Horizons images of Pluto’s companion Charon show a variety of terrains that display extensional tectonic features, with relief surprising for this relatively small world. These features suggest a global extensional areal strain of order 1% early in Charon’s history. Such extension is consistent...

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Autores principales: Beyer, Ross A., Nimmo, Francis, McKinnon, William B., Moore, Jeffrey M., Binzel, Richard P., Conrad, Jack W., Cheng, Andy, Ennico, K., Lauer, Tod R., Olkin, C.B., Robbins, Stuart, Schenk, Paul, Singer, Kelsi, Spencer, John R., Stern, S. Alan, Weaver, H.A., Young, L.A., Zangari, Amanda M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5599803/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28919640
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2016.12.018
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author Beyer, Ross A.
Nimmo, Francis
McKinnon, William B.
Moore, Jeffrey M.
Binzel, Richard P.
Conrad, Jack W.
Cheng, Andy
Ennico, K.
Lauer, Tod R.
Olkin, C.B.
Robbins, Stuart
Schenk, Paul
Singer, Kelsi
Spencer, John R.
Stern, S. Alan
Weaver, H.A.
Young, L.A.
Zangari, Amanda M.
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Nimmo, Francis
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Moore, Jeffrey M.
Binzel, Richard P.
Conrad, Jack W.
Cheng, Andy
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Lauer, Tod R.
Olkin, C.B.
Robbins, Stuart
Schenk, Paul
Singer, Kelsi
Spencer, John R.
Stern, S. Alan
Weaver, H.A.
Young, L.A.
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description New Horizons images of Pluto’s companion Charon show a variety of terrains that display extensional tectonic features, with relief surprising for this relatively small world. These features suggest a global extensional areal strain of order 1% early in Charon’s history. Such extension is consistent with the presence of an ancient global ocean, now frozen.
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spelling pubmed-55998032017-09-15 Charon tectonics Beyer, Ross A. Nimmo, Francis McKinnon, William B. Moore, Jeffrey M. Binzel, Richard P. Conrad, Jack W. Cheng, Andy Ennico, K. Lauer, Tod R. Olkin, C.B. Robbins, Stuart Schenk, Paul Singer, Kelsi Spencer, John R. Stern, S. Alan Weaver, H.A. Young, L.A. Zangari, Amanda M. Icarus Article New Horizons images of Pluto’s companion Charon show a variety of terrains that display extensional tectonic features, with relief surprising for this relatively small world. These features suggest a global extensional areal strain of order 1% early in Charon’s history. Such extension is consistent with the presence of an ancient global ocean, now frozen. 2016-12-16 2017-05-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5599803/ /pubmed/28919640 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2016.12.018 Text en This is an open access article under the CC BY license. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Robbins, Stuart
Schenk, Paul
Singer, Kelsi
Spencer, John R.
Stern, S. Alan
Weaver, H.A.
Young, L.A.
Zangari, Amanda M.
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