Searching for deep-seated thrust faults on the moon
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Jul 02, 2021 version files 198.26 MB
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basinOutlines.cpg
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basinOutlines.dbf
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basinOutlines.prj
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basinOutlines.sbn
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basinOutlines.sbx
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basinOutlines.shp
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basinOutlines.shx
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gggrx_1200a_boug_l660.tfw
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gggrx_1200a_boug_l660.tif
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gggrx_1200a_boug_l660.tif.aux.xml
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gggrx_1200a_boug_l660.tif.ovr
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Humorum_halfBasinSection.cpg
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Humorum_halfBasinSection.dbf
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Humorum_halfBasinSection.prj
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Humorum_halfBasinSection.sbn
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Humorum_halfBasinSection.sbx
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Humorum_halfBasinSection.shp
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Humorum_halfBasinSection.shx
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Humorum_topoProfiles.cpg
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Humorum_topoProfiles.dbf
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Humorum_topoProfiles.prj
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Humorum_topoProfiles.sbn
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Humorum_topoProfiles.sbx
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Humorum_topoProfiles.shp
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Humorum_topoProfiles.shx
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Humorum_wrinkleRidges.cpg
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Humorum_wrinkleRidges.dbf
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Humorum_wrinkleRidges.prj
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Humorum_wrinkleRidges.sbn
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Humorum_wrinkleRidges.sbx
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Humorum_wrinkleRidges.shp
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Humorum_wrinkleRidges.shp.xml
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Humorum_wrinkleRidges.shx
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Imbrium_halfBasinSection.cpg
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Imbrium_halfBasinSection.dbf
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Imbrium_halfBasinSection.prj
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Imbrium_halfBasinSection.sbn
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Imbrium_halfBasinSection.sbx
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Imbrium_halfBasinSection.shp
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Imbrium_halfBasinSection.shx
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Imbrium_topoProfiles.cpg
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Imbrium_topoProfiles.dbf
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Imbrium_topoProfiles.prj
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Imbrium_topoProfiles.sbn
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Imbrium_topoProfiles.sbx
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Imbrium_topoProfiles.shp
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Imbrium_topoProfiles.shx
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Imbrium_wrinkleRidges.cpg
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Imbrium_wrinkleRidges.dbf
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Imbrium_wrinkleRidges.sbn
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Imbrium_wrinkleRidges.shp
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Imbrium_wrinkleRidges.shp.xml
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lunarCrustalThickness.tfw
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lunarCrustalThickness.tif
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lunarCrustalThickness.tif.aux.xml
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lunarCrustalThickness.tif.ovr
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Moscoviense_halfBasinSection.cpg
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Moscoviense_halfBasinSection.prj
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Moscoviense_halfBasinSection.sbn
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Moscoviense_halfBasinSection.sbx
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Moscoviense_halfBasinSection.shp
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Moscoviense_topoProfiles.cpg
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Moscoviense_wrinkleRidges.cpg
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Nectaris_halfBasinSection.cpg
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Nectaris_topoProfiles.cpg
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Nectaris_wrinkleRidges.cpg
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resultsSummary.xlsx
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Serenitatis_halfBasinSection.cpg
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Serenitatis_halfBasinSection.prj
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Serenitatis_halfBasinSection.shp
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Serenitatis_topoProfiles.cpg
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Serenitatis_topoProfiles.shp
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Serenitatis_wrinkleRidges.cpg
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Serenitatis_wrinkleRidges.dbf
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Abstract
The lunar maria are large expanses of basalt that infill antecedent impact basins and show evidence for post-emplacement deformation. Landforms within many of these basins suggest a period of compressive tectonics, although the mechanism for their formation remains an open question. Previous work for Mare Crisium demonstrated that basin-circumferential wrinkle ridges, which typically demarcate the inner edge of an annulus of elevated terrain, are the result of deep-seated thrust faults that preferentially form along the boundary of an elevated, superisostatic portion of mantle and a thick, subisostatic collar of crustal material. Here, we show that a similar fault architecture exists for several other mascon-bearing basins, including Maria Serenititis, Nectaris, Moscoviense, and, to a lesser degree, Humorum and Imbrium. These deeply penetrating basin-circumferential thrust faults, as for Mare Crisium, form a (partial) outward-dipping ring-fault system that bounds the elevated mantle plug beneath each basin as a geometric consequence of mascon evolution. If this geometric arrangement is unique to the Moon, then some characteristic(s) of lunar mascon evolution enables the formation of such mascon-bounding faults. Despite the ubiquitous nature of mascon-bound thrust ring faults at several lunar basins, the prevalence of such structures at mascon basins on other terrestrial worlds remains an open question.