Terra scarps indicating youngest terra faults on the moon

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Aug 1984

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1984em%26p...31...63r&link_type=abstract

Earth, Moon, and Planets (ISSN 0167-9295), vol. 31, Aug. 1984, p. 63-74.

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Geological Faults, Lunar Geology, Lunar Surface, Tectonics, Lunar Crust, Ridges, Structural Basins

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Lunar crustal shortening does not seem to be restricted to the lava-filled basins alone; but there are some young scarp-like terra ridges in places around mare areas where they often continue other tectonic structures. This crustal shortening has not reached the same intensity as in the case of the lobate scarp overthrusts on Mercury. Young lunar terra ridges indicate that crustal shortening with an areal extent also took place slightly around mare basins. Thus they link tensional rille tectonics with compressional mare ridge tectonics and indicate that areal heating/bending/extension cooling/shortening/compression may describe an important explaining factor in lunar mare- and near-mare tectonics in addition to the volcanic extrusions.

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