Lunar mascon loading: an example of the importance of fault initiation depth on fault type predictions from stresses on planetary surfaces

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Apr 1985

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985pggp.rept..488g&link_type=abstract

In NASA, Washington Repts. of Planetary Geol. and Geophys. Program, 1984 p 488-490 (SEE N85-23474 13-91)

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Crustal Fractures, Geological Faults, Planetary Geology, Planetary Surfaces, Models, Predictions, Tensile Stress

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Geophysical models that predict fault type from stresses calculated at the planetary surface (zero depth) can be misleading because faults generally initiate at depth under a different stress regime and propagate to the surface. The generally accepted and most commonly employed criteria for fault prediction from calculated stresses on planetary surfaces points out problems in neglecting the effects of non-isotropic overburden stresses and the use of realistic material constants and shows a well known example (mascon loading on the moon) where neglecting this effect predicts a different type of fault than is actually observed.

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