Martian Cratering 10. Progress in use of crater counts to interpret geological processes: Examples from two debris aprons

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Jun 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010e%26psl.294..230h&link_type=abstract

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 294, Issue 3-4, p. 230-237.

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Recent controversies about systems of crater-count dating have been largely resolved, and with continuing refinements, crater counts will offer a fundamental geological tool to interpret not only ages, but also the nature of geological processes altering the surface of Mars. As an example of the latter technique, we present data on two debris aprons east of Hellas. The aprons show much shorter survival times of small craters than do the nearby contiguous plains. The order-of-magnitude depths of layers involved in the loss process can be judged from the depths of the affected craters. We infer that ice-rich layers in the top tens of meters of both aprons have lost crater topography within the last few 108 yr, probably due to flow or sublimation of ice-rich materials. Mantling by ice-rich deposits, associated with climate change cycles of obliquity change, has probably also affected both the aprons and the plains. The crater-count tool thus adds chronological and vertical dimensional information to purely morphological studies.

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