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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; Schenk, Paul; Singer, Kelsi; Spencer, John R.; Stern, S. Alan; Weaver, H.A.; Young, L.A.; Zangari, Amanda M.; Binzel, Richard P; ... Show more Show less
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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.
Date issued
2017-05
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/118301
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Journal
Icarus
Publisher
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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0019-1035
1090-2643

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