Charon tectonics

Charon tectonics

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 c...

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Main Authors: 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
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Published: Elsevier BV 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/118301

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