Fault‐bound valley associated with the Rembrandt basin on Mercury
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Fault-bound valley associated with the Rembrandt basin on Mercury
The Rembrandt basin is crosscut by the largest fault scarp on Mercury, Enterprise Rupes, and a second scarp complex, Belgica Rupes, extends to the basin’s rim. Topographic data derived fromMESSENGER orbital stereo images show that these tectonic landforms bound a broad, relatively flat-floored valley with a mean width of ~400 km. Crosscutting relations suggest that the accumulation of structura...
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عنوان ژورنال: Geophysical Research Letters
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0094-8276,1944-8007
DOI: 10.1002/2016gl070205