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<em>looking south LRO crustal thickness</em> <em>image processed by [mailto:mauricejscollins@hotmail.com" rel="nofollow Maurice Collins]</em><br />
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<em>looking south LRO crustal thickness</em> <em>image processed by [mailto:mauricejscollins@hotmail.com Maurice Collins]</em><br />
 
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A day or so ago Maurice posted a global crustal thickness [http://lpod.wikispaces.com/message/view/February+10%2C+2011/33980512#34035202" rel="nofollow map] to see if there was thinning under the putative Timoris Basin<br />
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A day or so ago Maurice posted a global crustal thickness map to see if there was thinning under the putative Timoris Basin
- there isn't and the basin probably never existed. But he noticed a strangeness at Mare Tranquilitatis and made this oblique <br />
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- there isn't and the basin probably never existed. But he noticed a strangeness at Mare Tranquilitatis and made this oblique  
view image to understand it better. Tranquillitatis is weird because it is roughly round and is filled with lava - two characteristics <br />
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view image to understand it better. Tranquillitatis is weird because it is roughly round and is filled with lava - two characteristics  
of impact basins. Except topo maps show that the eastern side of the basin (left) is relatively high, and there is little obvious <br />
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of impact basins. Except topo maps show that the eastern side of the basin (left) is relatively high, and there is little obvious  
basin structure. And this crustal thickness map - blue is thin crust, purple is thinner and shades of green are thicker - mimics <br />
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basin structure. And this crustal thickness map - blue is thin crust, purple is thinner and shades of green are thicker - mimics  
the topography. The western arc of the mare has a thin crust, with greatest thinning at Lamont - maybe it [/May+13%2C+2010 really] is a buried small <br />
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the topography. The western arc of the mare has a thin crust, with greatest thinning at Lamont - maybe it [[May_13,_2010|really]] is a buried small  
basin. The center and eastern parts of Tranquillitatis have thicknesses similar to some highlands areas - apparently there never <br />
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basin. The center and eastern parts of Tranquillitatis have thicknesses similar to some highlands areas - apparently there never  
was a basin there. And yet these parts are slightly low, and mare lavas - from the volcanic dome vents near the Cauchy Fault? - <br />
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was a basin there. And yet these parts are slightly low, and mare lavas - from the volcanic dome vents near the Cauchy Fault? -  
covered it. Our simple models of a crust that Is thinned, and elevations that are lowered, only by basin impacts may leave out <br />
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covered it. Our simple models of a crust that Is thinned, and elevations that are lowered, only by basin impacts may leave out  
other processes that we haven't yet discovered.<br />
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other processes that we haven't yet discovered.
 
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<em>[mailto:tychocrater@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow Chuck Wood]</em><br />
 
 
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<em>[mailto:tychocrater@yahoo.com Chuck Wood]</em><br />
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<p><b>Yesterday's LPOD:</b> [[February 12, 2011|Egyptian Moon]] </p>
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<p><b>Tomorrow's LPOD:</b> [[February 14, 2011|Valentine Moon]] </p>
 
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Latest revision as of 20:48, 27 October 2018

A Thick Problem

LPOD-Feb13-11.jpg
looking south LRO crustal thickness image processed by Maurice Collins

A day or so ago Maurice posted a global crustal thickness map to see if there was thinning under the putative Timoris Basin - there isn't and the basin probably never existed. But he noticed a strangeness at Mare Tranquilitatis and made this oblique view image to understand it better. Tranquillitatis is weird because it is roughly round and is filled with lava - two characteristics of impact basins. Except topo maps show that the eastern side of the basin (left) is relatively high, and there is little obvious basin structure. And this crustal thickness map - blue is thin crust, purple is thinner and shades of green are thicker - mimics the topography. The western arc of the mare has a thin crust, with greatest thinning at Lamont - maybe it really is a buried small basin. The center and eastern parts of Tranquillitatis have thicknesses similar to some highlands areas - apparently there never was a basin there. And yet these parts are slightly low, and mare lavas - from the volcanic dome vents near the Cauchy Fault? - covered it. Our simple models of a crust that Is thinned, and elevations that are lowered, only by basin impacts may leave out other processes that we haven't yet discovered.

Chuck Wood

Yesterday's LPOD: Egyptian Moon

Tomorrow's LPOD: Valentine Moon



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