Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Jun 1991
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991pggp.rept...93p&link_type=abstract
In NASA, Washington, Reports of Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program, 1990 p 93-94 (SEE N92-10728 01-91)
Mathematics
Logic
Deformation, Geological Faults, Icy Satellites, Planetary Evolution, Structural Properties (Geology), Tectonics, Troughs, Elevation, Enceladus, Ganymede, Magma, Miranda, Photogeology, Rotation, Terrain
Scientific paper
Voyager images demonstrate that the icy satellites have been shaped by a variety of magmatic and tectonic processes, of which ridge and trough terrain is a manifestation. This terrain is observed on Ganymede, Enceladus, Miranda, and Ariel, and many models have been proposed to explain its origin. A likely model is horst and graben style normal faulting, in which horizontal extension results in a series of downdropped grabens and relatively uplifted horsts. The apparent negative elevation of ridges and troughs relative to surrounding terrain has been used to argue such an extensional-tectonic origin for ridge and trough terrain on Ganymede and Enceladus. A ridge or ridge set which stands above a presumed original base level, thus, might be suspect of having a magmatic or compressional origin. It has been shown that rotation of domino-style normal faulting, which involves rotation of fault blocks about a fulcrum, can allow ridges to stand slightly above the original base level, and this relative uplift may be amplified by isostatic uplift. Compensation might also be accomplished through uplift of adjacent horsts. These theories are defended with dynamical equations.
Greeley Ronald
Pappalardo Robert
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