A Shear Heating Origin for Ridges on Triton

Details A Shear Heating Origin for Ridges on Triton A Shear Heating Origin for Ridges on Triton

Mar 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005lpi....36.1722p&link_type=abstract

36th Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, March 14-18, 2005, in League City, Texas, abstract no.1722

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Morphologically similar ridges are present on the geologically young
surfaces of Triton and Europa. We show that a plausible mechanism for
Triton ridge formation is shear heating, driven by diurnal stresses
occurring soon after Triton's capture.

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