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Oct 2015
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Shangzhe Zhou, Zhiyong Xiao, Zuoxun Zeng. Impact Craters with Circular and Isolated Secondary Craters on the Continuous Secondaries Facies on the Moon. Journal of Earth Science, 2015, 26(5): 740-745. doi: 10.1007/s12583-015-0579-y
Citation: Shangzhe Zhou, Zhiyong Xiao, Zuoxun Zeng. Impact Craters with Circular and Isolated Secondary Craters on the Continuous Secondaries Facies on the Moon. Journal of Earth Science, 2015, 26(5): 740-745. doi: 10.1007/s12583-015-0579-y

Impact Craters with Circular and Isolated Secondary Craters on the Continuous Secondaries Facies on the Moon

doi: 10.1007/s12583-015-0579-y
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  • Corresponding author: Zhiyong Xiao, zyxiao@cug.edu.cn
  • Received Date: 19 Jul 2014
  • Accepted Date: 07 Nov 2014
  • Publish Date: 01 Oct 2015
  • On airless bodies such as the Moon and Mercury, secondary craters on the continuous secondaries facies of fresh craters mostly occur in chains and clusters. They have very irregular shapes. Secondaries on the continuous secondaries facies of some Martian and Mercurian craters are more isolated from each other in distribution and are more circular in shape, probably due to the effect of target properties on the impact excavation process. This paper studies secondaries on the continuous secondaries facies of all fresh lunar complex craters using recently-obtained high resolution images. After a global search, we find that 3 impact craters and basins on the Moon have circular and isolated secondaries on the continuous secondaries facies similar to those on Mercury: the Orientale basin, the Antoniadi crater, and the Compton crater. The morphological differences between such special secondaries and typical lunar secondaries are quantitatively compared and analyzed. Our preliminary analyses suggest that the special secondaries were probably caused by high temperature gradients within the local targets when these craters and basins formed. The high-temperature of the targets could have affected the impact excavation process by causing higher ejection angles, giving rise to more scattered circular secondaries.

     

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