Distribution and relations of 4- to 10-km-diameter craters to global geologic units of Mars

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Craters, Mars Surface, Spatial Distribution, Terrain Analysis, Chronology, Erosion, Planetary Evolution, Planetology, Evolution, Geology, Ages, Viking 1 Orbiter, Stratigraphy, Maps, Crater-Morphology Technique, Mars, Craters, Mariner 9, Crater Density

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The average density of craters in the 4- to 10-km diameter range was determined for 23 geologic-geomorphic units of Mars. The determinations, based on Mariner-9 images and the 1:25,000,000 geologic map of Scott and Carr (1977), relied on digitized, same-scale versions of the imagery and the geologic map. Crater densities have been suggested as indicators of the age of the Martian geologic formations. On the basis of this suggestion, a ranking from youngest to oldest formation was devised: Tharsis volcanic material, smooth plains, rolling plains, plains, ridged plains, hilly and cratered material, and cratered plateaus.

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