Evolution of the Rembrandt impact basin on Mercury - PubMed (original) (raw)
. 2009 May 1;324(5927):618-21.
doi: 10.1126/science.1172109.
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Evolution of the Rembrandt impact basin on Mercury
Thomas R Watters et al. Science. 2009.
Abstract
MESSENGER's second Mercury flyby revealed a ~715-kilometer-diameter impact basin, the second-largest well-preserved basin-scale impact structure known on the planet. The Rembrandt basin is comparable in age to the Caloris basin, is partially flooded by volcanic plains, and displays a unique wheel-and-spoke-like pattern of basin-radial and basin-concentric wrinkle ridges and graben. Stratigraphic relations indicate a multistaged infilling and deformational history involving successive or overlapping phases of contractional and extensional deformation. The youngest deformation of the basin involved the formation of a approximately 1000-kilometer-long lobate scarp, a product of the global cooling and contraction of Mercury.
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