Dark halo craters and the thickness of grooved terrain on Ganymede

Details Dark halo craters and the thickness of grooved terrain on Ganymede Dark halo craters and the thickness of grooved terrain on Ganymede

Apr 1985

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985pggp.rept...27s&link_type=abstract

In NASA, Washington Repts. of Planetary Geol. and Geophys. Program, 1984 p 27-29 (SEE N85-23474 13-91)

Physics

Craters, Flyby Missions, Ganymede, Geology, Halos, Stratigraphy, Terrain, Voyager Project, Albedo, Brightness, Color, Ejecta, Ice, Image Processing, Tectonics

Scientific paper

Dark halo craters on grooved terrain on Ganymede represent potential probes of the subsurface geology. These craters are surrounded by a broad, diffuse low albedo annulus, or halo and have apparently lost the bright rim and ray deposits associated with very young craters. The recognition of dark halo craters, almost all greater than 12 km in diameter, indicates that material darker and redder than grooved terrain material forms a stratigraphy horizon at about 1 km depth the present surface of grooved terrain in Uruk Sulcus. This material is most likely downdropped cratered terrain material, which only larger craters have excavated into. This is most consistent with extensional tectonic models for grooved terrain formation whereby the lithosphere is stretched and blocks of ancient cratered terrain are downdropped along bounding faults, and subsequently resurfaced by a shallow layer of relatively clean icy material. Evidence for the preservation of cratered terrain material at shallow depth beneath grooved terrain material poses great difficulties for alternative grooved and smoothed terrain formation mechanisms.

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