Evolution of the Rembrandt Impact Basin on Mercury

Details Evolution of the Rembrandt Impact Basin on Mercury Evolution of the Rembrandt Impact Basin on Mercury

May 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009sci...324..618w&link_type=abstract

Science, Volume 324, Issue 5927, pp. 618- (2009).

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MESSENGER’s second Mercury flyby revealed a ~715-kilometer-diameter impact basin, the second-largest well-preserved basin-scale impact structure known on the planet. The Rembrandt basin is comparable in age to the Caloris basin, is partially flooded by volcanic plains, and displays a unique wheel-and-spoke-like pattern of basin-radial and basin-concentric wrinkle ridges and graben. Stratigraphic relations indicate a multistaged infilling and deformational history involving successive or overlapping phases of contractional and extensional deformation. The youngest deformation of the basin involved the formation of a ~1000-kilometer-long lobate scarp, a product of the global cooling and contraction of Mercury.

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