Origin of Martian polygonal terrain: Preliminary results

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Apr 1985

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985pggp.rept..332m&link_type=abstract

In NASA, Washington Repts. of Planetary Geol. and Geophys. Program p 332-334 (SEE N85-23474 13-91)

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Mars (Planet), Morphology, Polygons, Tensile Stress, Terrain, Chronology, Clays, Cracking (Fracturing), Craters, Ejecta, Mathematical Models, Topography

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The morphological characteristics of Martian polygonal terrain, and of the fractures defining the polygons were reviewed. The age relationships between the fractures defining the polygons and the material making up the polygonal terrain of Adamas Labyrinthus will be determined. This involves detailed mapping, with the relative ages of Key map units and the fractures determined by superposition and crater counts. The common occurrence of circular fracture patterns within the polygonal terrain is consistent with differential compaction over crater rims, and is easily accounted for by the tensile stresses that would be reasonably expected to occur in such places.

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