Planetary surface dating from crater size-frequency distribution measurements: Partial resurfacing events and statistical age uncertainty

By Greg Michael, Gerhard Neukum. 2010

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science

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In Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. Stuart J. Robbins
2. Ernst Hauber
3. William Bottke
4. B. Hynek
5. Petr Brož
6. R. Lillis
7. Greg Michael
8. J. Bibring

In Atmospheric Science

1. Stuart J. Robbins
2. Ernst Hauber
3. Petr Brož
4. William Bottke
5. R. Lillis
6. B. Hynek
7. T. Platz
8. T. Kneissl

Citations in the corpus

• How old are young lunar craters (2012, methodology): “The CSFDs were plotted with the software package CraterStats [Michael and Neukum, 2010; hrscview.fuberlin. de/craterstats.html], using the crater-size standard distribution 5 of 15 (production function) and lunar cratering chronology of Neukum et al. [2001].”
• Planetary surface dating from crater size–frequency distribution measurements: Spatial randomness and clustering (2012, methodology): “More commonly, we see partial resurfacing effects removing craters of smaller sizes (Michael and Neukum, 2010), so it is conceivable that here we are observing something of a balance of the two effects.”
• The current martian cratering rate (2010, background): “The return of dateable samples from the Moon (summary in Wilhelms et al. (1987)) led to the assignment of absolute ages to lunar crater counts (e.g. Baldwin, 1985; Neukum and Ivanov, 1994; Stöffler and Ryder, 2001).”
• Sequence of infilling events in Gale Crater, Mars: Results from morphology, stratigraphy, and mineralogy (2013, methodology): “Absolute model ages were determined using the software Craterstats [Michael and Neukum, 2010] applying the Mars production function of Ivanov [2001] and the chronology function of Hartmann and Neukum [2001].”
• Widespread surface weathering on early Mars: A case for a warmer and wetter climate (2015, methodology): “We estimate the ages of geological units in which the weathering sequences are likely identified using the ‘‘Craterstat2’’ software developed by Michael and Neukum (2010): the crater size–frequency distribution of large surfaces is compared with a crater production function (Ivanov, 2001); then…”
• Large impact crater histories of Mars: The effect of different model crater age techniques (2013, methodology): “Note that this is different from the popular CraterStats tool distribut ed by Frie Universität Berlin (Michael and Neukum , 2010 ) which estimate s uncertainty only based upon the D = 1 km point’s uncertainties (consequently, uncertainties calculated here are generally larger).”
• Hydrovolcanic tuff rings and cones as indicators for phreatomagmatic explosive eruptions on Mars (2013, methodology): “Absolute cratering model ages were derived with the software tool “craterstats” [Michael and Neukum, 2010] by analysis of the crater-size frequency distributions applying the production function coefficients of Ivanov [2001] and the impact cratering chronology model coefficients of Hartmann and…”
• Very recent and wide‐spread basaltic volcanism on Mars (2011, methodology): “Absolute crater model ages were derived with the software ‘craterstats’ [Michael and Neukum, 2010] by analysis of crater size‐frequency distributions (CSFD) applying the production function coefficients of Ivanov [2001] 1Institut für Planetenforschung, DLR, Berlin, Germany.”