Strike Slip Tectonics on Enceladus

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Mar 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996lpi....27..433g&link_type=abstract

Lunar and Planetary Science, volume 27, page 433

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Compressional Stresses, Duplex, Samarkanda Sulci, Strike Slip Fault, Tectonics: Enceladus

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One of the most surprising characteristics of Enceladus is its intense tectonic activity on its surface. This tectonic activity can be seen as faults and ridges that deform the ancient craterized terrains and generate the actual topography. The main structure that defines the visible tectonics of the satellite is Samarkanda Sulci, which it has been interpreted as a extensional rift but we have reinterpreted as a strike slip zone. The slip has a sinistral movement and a deduced NNW-SSE direction of compression. The changes in the orientation of the fault plane generate directional duplex, some trans-tensional and others trans-pressional.

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