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Jan 1982
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1982jgr....87..371m&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 87, Jan. 10, 1982, p. 371-380.
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Gravitational Effects, Impact Damage, Planetary Craters, Planetary Evolution, Lithosphere, Oscillations, Rheology, Ring Structures, Terrestrial Planets, Earth, Moon, Ganymede, Comparisons, Experiments, Crater Floors, Craters, Mathematical Models, Gravity Effects, Formation, Structure, Features, Central Peaks, Rings, Slumping, Fluidization, Rheology, Impacts, Flow, Viscosity, Stress, Planets, Satellites, Mercury (Planet), Callisto, Diameter, Asymmetry, Lithosphere, Fractures, Asthenosphere, Pressure, Collaps
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The morphology of craters found on planets and moons of the solar system is examined and a development model which can account for the observed crater characteristics is discussed. The prompt collapse of craters to form flat floors, terraced walls, and central peak structures is considered to be the result of an approximate Bingham plastic rheology of the material surrounding the crater. This rheology is induced dynamically by the strong incoherent acoustic 'noise' accompanying excavation of the crater. Central pits, peak rings, and other multiple symmetric-profile rings originate by oscillation of this fluid. Large craters with transient depths comparable to the lithosphere thickness are subject to collapse by fragmentation of the lithosphere as well as fluidization. The considered concepts are developed mathematically. A model emerges which appears capable of explaining most of the qualitative features of large impact structures.
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