Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Mar 1993
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993lpi....24.1453u&link_type=abstract
In Lunar and Planetary Inst., Twenty-Fourth Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Part 3: N-Z p 1453-1454 (SEE N94-20636 05-91
Mathematics
Logic
Ganymede, Planetary Craters, Planetary Geology, Satellite Surfaces, Structural Properties (Geology), Ice, Lithosphere, Planetary Crusts
Scientific paper
Galileo Regio quadrangle, including most of Galileo Regio, contains two basic geologic units: older dark, furrowed, and heavily cratered material and younger light, grooved, relatively less-cratered material. Dark material dominates, the light material occurring to the W and SW in about five percent of the quadrangle. Dominant structural features, of uncertain origin, are the NW-trending arcuate furrows and associated orthogonal and oblique furrows in the dark material; grooves in the light material are not as well-ordered nor as intensely developed as elsewhere on Ganymede. Fifteen palimpsests, located partly or totally in the quadrangle and representing the period when the crust became sufficiently strong to record impact events, are subdivided into three relative-age classes, as are the numerous impact craters, some of which are dome, moat, and rampart-like. Galileo Regio is believed to have formed when, because of cooling, differentiation, and expansion, the thin, weak, icy lithosphere broke into blocks and light material filled the space between, or overspread those blocks that subsided, or both. Grooves formed in most of the light material and both light and dark material were cratered by impact, the most recent of which created bright-ray craters, the youngest features visible in the quadrangle.
Casacchia Ruggero
Diplanetologia Reparto
Teeling Michael J.
Underwood James R. Jr.
Woronow Alex
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