TY - JOUR
T1 - Geologic mapping of the Ac-11 Sintana quadrangle
T2 - Assessing diverse crater morphologies
AU - Schulzeck, F.
AU - Krohn, K.
AU - v.d. Gathen, I.
AU - Schmedemann, N.
AU - Stephan, K.
AU - Jaumann, R.
AU - Williams, David
AU - Wagner, R.
AU - Buczkowski, D. L.
AU - Mest, S. C.
AU - Scully, J. E.C.
AU - Kersten, E.
AU - Matz, K. D.
AU - Naß, A.
AU - Preusker, F.
AU - Roatsch, T.
AU - Raymond, C. A.
AU - Russell, C. T.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank guest editor Michael Bland, Nadine G. Barlow and two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments and reviews of our paper. Additionally, we thank the Dawn team for the development, cruise, orbital insertion, and operations of the Dawn spacecraft at Ceres. Dawn data are archived with the NASA Planetary Data System (http://sbn.pds.nasa.gov/).
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© 2017 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2018/12
Y1 - 2018/12
N2 - A geologic map at a scale of 1:1,000,000 of the Ac-11 Sintana quadrangle (21–66°S and 0–90°E) from the dwarf planet Ceres and based on data from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, was produced as part of a geologic mapping campaign in order to investigate the surface structure, stratigraphy, composition and surface modifying processes. The Sintana quadrangle is geologically dominated by cratered terrain with morphologically distinct crater types. The most prominent craters, Sintana, Hamori, Jarimba, Tupo, Annona and Darzamat, have complex structures including smooth crater material covering their floors, collapsed crater walls forming terraces, and central ridges. Multiple gravity-driven blocky mass wasting features indicate post-impact crater modification and are indicative of an ice-rich subsurface, in which there is no topographic or structural evidence of endogenic activity visible in the quadrangle. Absolute age estimates suggest that the entire surface in the quadrangle was resurfaced ∼1.1 Ga ago, possibly by Kerwan-related impact-induced melting.
AB - A geologic map at a scale of 1:1,000,000 of the Ac-11 Sintana quadrangle (21–66°S and 0–90°E) from the dwarf planet Ceres and based on data from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, was produced as part of a geologic mapping campaign in order to investigate the surface structure, stratigraphy, composition and surface modifying processes. The Sintana quadrangle is geologically dominated by cratered terrain with morphologically distinct crater types. The most prominent craters, Sintana, Hamori, Jarimba, Tupo, Annona and Darzamat, have complex structures including smooth crater material covering their floors, collapsed crater walls forming terraces, and central ridges. Multiple gravity-driven blocky mass wasting features indicate post-impact crater modification and are indicative of an ice-rich subsurface, in which there is no topographic or structural evidence of endogenic activity visible in the quadrangle. Absolute age estimates suggest that the entire surface in the quadrangle was resurfaced ∼1.1 Ga ago, possibly by Kerwan-related impact-induced melting.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.icarus.2017.12.007
DO - 10.1016/j.icarus.2017.12.007
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85039426333
SN - 0019-1035
VL - 316
SP - 154
EP - 166
JO - Icarus
JF - Icarus
ER -