Early thermal profiles and lithospheric strength of Ganymede from extensional tectonic features

Details Early thermal profiles and lithospheric strength of Ganymede from extensional tectonic features Early thermal profiles and lithospheric strength of Ganymede from extensional tectonic features

Nov 1986

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986icar...68..252g&link_type=abstract

Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035), vol. 68, Nov. 1986, p. 252-265. NASA-supported research.

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Ganymede, Lithosphere, Tectonics, Thermal Radiation, Brittleness, Ductility, Ice, Thickness, Jupiter, Satellites, Ganymede, Thermal Properties, Lithosphere, Tectonics, Extension, Thickness, Parameters, Strength, Stability, Stress, Depth, Grooves, Thermal Gradient, Terrain, Topography, Icy Bodies, Surface, Photographs, Galileo Regio, Furrows

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The early thermal profiles and the lithospheric stability and strength of Ganymede are quantitatively determined on the basis of brittle lithosphere thickness estimates derived from the width and spacing of extensional tectonic features, together with lithospheric strength envelopes for ice. Plots of the brittle and ductile yield stress vs. depth for the icy lithosphere of Ganymede exhibit a linear increase in brittle strength with depth to a maximum at the brittle-ductile transition that is followed by an exponential decrease in ductile yield stress with depth. The results obtained imply that the thermal gradient and lithospheric strength have varied laterally by factor as great as 5, and that Ganymede underwent cooling in a highly inhomogeneous fashion with lateral thermal anomalies. The present analysis furnishes reasons for the stability of large cratered terrain remnants.

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