Fault type predictions from stress distributions on planetary surfaces - Importance of fault initiation depth

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Mar 1985

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985jgr....90.3065g&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 90, March 10, 1985, p. 3065-3074. NASA-supported research.

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Geological Faults, Planetary Surfaces, Stress Distribution, Tectonics, Terradynamics, Elastic Plates, Lunar Crust, Mechanical Properties, Plates (Tectonics), Planets, Surface, Faults, Faulting, Stress, Distribution, Structure, Geophysics, Models, Moon, Plates, Lithosphere, Flexing, Elasticity, Calculations, Pressure, Grabens, Megaregolith, Wrinkle Ridges, Depth, Comparisons, Observations, Satellites, Deformation, Formation

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The prediction of fault type on planetary surfaces from model stresses calculated at depth is discussed. These fault-type predictions yield different faults than those predicted using the surface criteria commonly employed in geophysical models. For elastic-plate flexure models of mascon loading on the moon, stresses calculated at the surface predict the occurrence of strike-slip faulting at the radial distance where grabens are found. Normal faults bounding lunar grabens and thrust faults responsible for wrinkle ridges are analyzed. It is found that the former initiate at the mechanical discontinuity that separates the breccia of the megaregolith from in situ fractured rock and that the latter initiate at the mechanical discontinuity between basalt layers and the underlying basin floor. The difference between elastic constants for the outer few kilometers of brecciated megaregolith and the underlying lunar lithosphere are evaluated. Superposing nonisotropic stresses resulting from the weight of overburden to the depth of the relevant mechanical discontinuity yield stresses that predict wrinkle ridges in the basin centers and grabens outside the basin margin, and eliminate the predicted zone of strike-slip faults.

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