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标题：Tectonic evolution of northwestern Imbrium of the Moon that lasted in the Copernican Period
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作者：Yuko Daket ; Atsushi Yamaji ; Katsushi Sato 等
期刊名称：Earth, Planets and Space
电子版ISSN：1880-5981
出版年度：2016
卷号：68
期号：1
页码：1-20
DOI：10.1186/s40623-016-0531-0
出版社：Springer Verlag
摘要：The formation ages of tectonic structures and their spatial distributions were studied in the northwestern Imbrium and Sinus Iridum regions using images obtained by Terrain Camera and Multiband Imager on board the SELENE spacecraft and the images obtained by Narrow Angle Camera on board LRO. The formation ages of mare ridges are constrained by the depositional ages of mare basalts, which are either deformed or dammed by the ridges. For this purpose, we defined stratigraphic units and determined their depositional ages by crater counting. The degradation levels of craters dislocated by tectonic structures were also used to determine the youngest limits of the ages of the tectonic activities. As a result, it was found that the contractions to form mare ridges lasted long after the deposition of the majority of the mare basalts. There are mare ridges that were tectonically active even in the Copernican Period. Those young structures are inconsistent with the mascon tectonics hypothesis, which attributes tectonic deformations to the subsidence of voluminous basaltic fills. The global cooling or the cooling of the Procellarum KREEP Terrane region seems to be responsible for them. In addition, we found a graben that was active after the Eratosthenian Period. It suggests that the global or regional cooling has a stress level low enough to allow the local extensional tectonics.
关键词：Moon; SELENE (Kaguya); Mare Imbrium; Geohistory; Copernican tectonics; Contraction; Extension