Characteristic structures of the highland boundary on Mars: Evidence against a single mega-impact event?

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May 1987

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987pggp.rept..467s&link_type=abstract

In NASA, Washington, Reports of Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program, 1986 p 467-468 (SEE N87-23341 16-91)

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Craters, Highlands, Impact Damage, Mars Surface, Crustal Fractures, Geological Surveys, Terrain Analysis

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It has been suggested that an early mega-impact event might explain the fumdamental crustal dichotomy on Mars. Detailed morphological mapping of the structures which characterize the boundary between the cratered highlands and northern plains does not support this idea: the distribution of these features along and especially away from the boundary is more consistent with a larger number of smaller but overlapping impacts. A data base was assembled for the study of the highland boundary through quantitative mapping (including crater counts) based on the 1:2 M controlled photomosaics. Whole and partial craters larger than 10 km in diameter, knobby terrain, detached plateaus and intervening plains-forming units have been identified wherever they occur on Mars between +65 and -45 deg latitude. There is evidence for occurrences of possible old cratered terrain (or its remanents) at high latitudes well north of the current or likely former location of the proposed Borealis Basin rim which are difficult to reconcile with an impact structure of the proposed size and location.

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