[1] Since its insertion into orbit about Mercury in March 2011, the MESSENGER spacecraft has imaged most previously unseen regions of the planet in unprecedented detail, revealing extensive regions of contiguous smooth plains at high northern latitudes and surrounding the Caloris basin. These smooth plains, thought to be emplaced by flood volcanism, are populated with several hundred ghost crat...

this paper presents evidence on mesozoic inversion of basin bounding faults within the taleqan-gajereh-lar paleograben (tglp) in central alborz range. for this purpose, well documented stratigraphy data across the tglp together with the new acquired structural data on the geometry and kinematics of the paleograben basin bounding faults are utilized. the tglp has evolved through the early and mi...

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) is the first instrument to provide widespread coverage with a range of incidence angles at the resolution required to detect small-scale landforms. A sample (n = 238) of globally distributed, small-scale graben average 26 m wide and 179 m long. When dividing the population into those located within mare and highland regions, we observe that graben ...

Introduction: We describe the morphotectonic features of the Acheron Fossae (AF) graben system (NW Tharsis). The AF were early recognized as a heavily fratured region [1,2,3,4], and Viking-based geologic mapping summarized the major geologic surface units of the region [5], but no detailed tectonic investigation has been performed yet. An ESEto EW-trending topographic high of Noachian age, stan...

Abstract Knowledge of groundwater flow is high relevance for management or the planning different subsurface utilizations such as deep geothermal facilities. While numerical models can help to understand hydrodynamics targeted reservoir, their predictive capabilities are limited by assumptions made in setup. Among others, choice appropriate hydraulic boundary conditions, adopted represent regio...

Single-channel and multichannel marine seismic data off the coast of West Antarctica collected during two Nathaniel B. Palmer cruises (NP92-8 and NP96-2) in the vicinity of 6SOS to 71 °S, 220°E to 250°E, reveal a NNW trending graben. We interpret this graben to be part of the paleodivergent plate boundary between the Marie Byrd Land and Bellingshausen plates. This graben coincides with a -520 n...