The Utopia Basin revisited: Regional slope and shorelines from MOLA profiles

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Feb 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001georl..28..411m&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 28, Issue 3, p. 411-414

Physics

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Planetology: Solid Surface Planets: Origin And Evolution, Planetology: Solid Surface Planets: Tectonics, Planetology: Solid Surface Planets: General Or Miscellaneous, Planetology: Solar System Objects: Neptune

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MOLA profiles indicate that Utopia Planitia, including the Utopia Basin, has been tilted northward by ~0.025° since formation of the basin but no later than mid-Late Hesperian. This tilt could be a relic of the endogenic formation of the global dichotomy in late Noachian to early Hesperian by a process involving subcrustal erosion in the lowland. The Utopia Basin survives as a deep, circular depression within Utopia Planitia. Along its south flank are several horizontal or near horizontal terraces and benches that may be shorelines of an extensive northern lowland ocean and a more restricted lake within the Utopia Basin. The large size (up to 200 km wide) of these putative shorelines represents a major geomorphic problem to be solved.

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