Photoclinometric Studies of Lobate Scarps on Mars

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Mar 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996lpi....27.1391w&link_type=abstract

Lunar and Planetary Science, volume 27, page 1391

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Lobate Scarps, Mars, Noachis Terra, Photoclinometry, Terra Cimmeria

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Lobate scarps are landforms on Mars that occur almost exclusively in highland material. These scarps are morphologically similar to highland scarps observed on the Moon and Mercury. They are lobate, arcuate or linear and often segmented, in plan view, and appear to be generally one-sided. Based on their morphology and the fact that many clearly deform crater floors, they are interpreted to be compressional tectonic features resulting from thrust faulting. Lobate scarps on Mars, like those on Mercury, appear to occur on at least two different scales, described here as moderate- and large-scale. Although lobate scarps are important tectonic features, reflecting significant compressional deformation of some of the oldest land masses on Mars, their morphology and dimensions have never been characterized in detail. Monoscopic photoclinometry is used in this study to extract elevation data across lobate scarps from Viking Orbiter images. From these data the amount of the crustal shortening across lobate scarps is estimated. Preliminary results indicate that large-scale scarps like Amenthes Rupes reflect at least several kilometers of crustal shortening and may be the largest compressional tectonic features on Mars.

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