Unstable Deformation and the Formation of the Equatorial Bulge of Iapetus

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Mar 2011

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42nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, held March 7–11, 2011 at The Woodlands, Texas. LPI Contribution No. 1608, p.2441

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By simulating a pole-to-equator variation in lithospheric thickness
during an epoch of planetary contraction, we can tectonically reproduce
the observed shape of Iapetus. Thus, the flattening may not be a frozen
rotational bulge, as has been assumed.

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