Patterns of fracture and tidal stresses on Europa

Details Patterns of fracture and tidal stresses on Europa Patterns of fracture and tidal stresses on Europa

Mar 1983

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1983icar...53..415h&link_type=abstract

Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035), vol. 53, March 1983, p. 415-430.

Computer Science

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Crustal Fractures, Europa, Planetary Orbits, Satellite Surfaces, Surface Cracks, Tides, Data Processing, Eccentric Orbits, Elastic Shells, Jupiter Satellites, Mercator Projection, Orbit Perturbation, Planetary Geology, Planetology, Thin Walled Shells, Volume, Jupiter, Satellites, Europa, Tidal Effects, Stress, Fracturing, Patterns, Hypotheses, Lineaments, Bands, Ridges, Patterns, Tides, Faults, Orbits, Eccentricity, Compression, Volume, Surface

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A comparison of dark band, triple band, and cuspate ridge orientations with the fracture patterns predicted for tidal distortion due to orbital recession and eccentricity is undertaken, to test the hypothesized identification of Europa's lineaments as tidal distortion and planetary volume change fractures. Short, reticule dark bands near the anti-Jove point could be tension cracks caused by orbital eccentricity. Long, arcuate dark bands and triple bands peripheral to the anti-Jove point may be strike-slip faults due to orbital recession. The orientation and distribution of cuspate ridges, if they are compressional, suggests their formation in response to a combination of orbital recession and planetary volume decrease. If surface fracturing is due to tidal deformation, important constraints are exerted by it on Europa's orbital evolution.

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