Interpreting Mascon Wrinkle Ridges on Isidis Planitia, Mars Using Axial Surface Mapping Techniques: Reconstructing Structural Development and Stress Environments
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Introduction: Isidis Planitia, a Noachian impact crater infilled with Hesperian aged basalts, is located on Mars on the crustal dichotomy and is antipodal to the Tharsis rise [1]. Measuring 1400 km across and 2 km deep, it is comparable in scale and age to lunar mascons. The basin contains an interesting pattern of both radial and concentric wrinkle ridges (see Figure 1), and massive graben are found outside the crater rim.
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