Charon tectonics
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Beyer, Ross A.
Nimmo, Francis
McKinnon, William B.
Moore, Jeffrey M.
Conrad, Jack W.
Cheng, Andy
Ennico, K.
Lauer, Tod R.
Olkin, C.B.
Robbins, Stuart
Date Issued
May 2017
Journal
Icarus
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Elsevier BV
Citation
Beyer, Ross A., et al. “Charon Tectonics.” Icarus, vol. 287, May 2017, pp. 161–74. © 2016 The Authors
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Abstract
New Horizons images of Pluto's companion Charon show a variety of terrains that display extensional tectonic features, with relief surprising for this relatively small world. These features suggest a global extensional areal strain of order 1% early in Charon's history. Such extension is consistent with the presence of an ancient global ocean, now frozen.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
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https://doi.org/10.1016/J.ICARUS.2016.12.018
