Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Nov 1983
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1983icar...56..278w&link_type=abstract
Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035), vol. 56, Nov. 1983, p. 278-298.
Mathematics
Logic
37
Geological Faults, Mars Surface, Ridges, Topography, Classifications, Morphology, Photogeology, Plains, Viscoelasticity
Scientific paper
The results of a detailed photogeologic analysis and classification of ridge-fault cross-cutting relationships on ridged plains units of the Tharsis region is reported. The problems involved in using the morphology of ridge-fault intersections to determine relative timing of structural events are discussed. The implications of using intersection angles as well as morphology to determine possible age relationships for the tectonic history of the region are presented. It is concluded that the major ridge-forming events in the Tharsis region were roughly coincident with, and possibly prior to, the extensional events that produced the faulting of the Tempe and Mareotis regions, the Coprates and Memnonia regions, and the rifting of the Valles Marineris. The compressional events that formed most of the ridges are restricted in time both by their relationship to regional extensional events and by the age of the units on which they formed.
Maxwell Ted A.
Watters Thomas R.
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