Mass-Wasting Processes on the Surface of Phobos

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Nov 2001

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Solar System Research, v. 35, Issue 6, p. 431-443 (2001).

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This paper considers morphologic signatures of mass-wasting processes on the surface of Phobos. Two types of downslope movement of material are distinguished: (i) intracrater volume landslides inside impact craters and (ii) downslope near-surface movement of material. Crater statistics for the Stickney area (based on new images of Phobos) showed that the landslide in the crater Stickney could have been formed after resurfacing of the outer rim of the crater in the process of meteorite bombardment. An estimate of the volume of the landslide in Stickney (1-2 km^3) and simulation of its movement allowed us to classify the landslide as a long-runout one. The possibility of forming a hummocky topographic relief to the east of Stickney due to the crater ejecta and the emplacement of the frontal part of the long-runout landslide is discussed.

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