Tension fracturing at Uranius Fossae, Mars

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Mar 1997

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997lpi....28..931m&link_type=abstract

Conference Paper, 28th Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, p. 931.

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Tensile Stress, Fracture Mechanics, Mars Surface, Stress Concentration, Geological Faults, Mapping

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Uranius Fossae is a series of cross-cutting grabens of various directions, in which three preferential trends are found. It is suggested that crustal uplift associated with unsteady stress trajectories may have produced tension fractures. After they reached a critical depth, they changed to normal faults, and tensile stress concentration at the surface at some distance from the faults produced antithetic faulting. This mechanism may also apply to other fractured terrains on Mars.

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