Surface Ages and Resurfacing Rates of the Polar Layered Deposits on Mars
By K. Herkenhoff, Jeffrey J. Plaut. 2000
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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics
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Citations in the corpus
- THE IMPORTANCE OF SECONDARY CRATERING TO AGE CONSTRAINTS ON PLANETARY SURFACES (2006, background): “The south-polar layered deposits on Mars are ∼10 million years old based on the number of craters >800 m diameter and a conservative (b = 2) production function (Herkenhoff & Plaut 2000).”
- Recent formation and evolution of northern Martian polar layered deposits as inferred from a Global Climate Model (2007, methodology): “They proposed an average accumulation rate of 0.5 mm/yr (that is � 0.92 mm/Martian year) for the upper 250 m within the range of resurfacing rates (� 0.3–1.2 mm/Martian year) independently estimated by Herkenhoff and Plaut [2000] on the base of impact crater density.”
- Geologic history of Mars (2010, background): “Crater counts indicate that the average age of the surface is of the order of 10(5) years (Herkenhoff and Plaut, 2000).”
- Subsurface structure of Planum Boreum from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Shallow Radar soundings (2009, background): “In contrast, the south polar layered deposits (SPLD)—which have substantially older surface cratering ages of 10–100 Ma (Herkenhoff and Plaut, 2000)—exhibit much more variable radar reflectivity, including apparent internal and near-surface angular unconformities suggestive of more widespread…”
- North polar cap of Mars: Polar layered deposit characterization and identification of a fundamental climate signal (2005, unknown): “Herkenhoff and Plaut [2000] have estimated the surface age as less than 120 kyr on the basis of the absence of impact craters larger than 300 m in diameter, corresponding to a resurfacing rate of 0.12–0.47 cm/yr.”
- The Polar Deposits of Mars (2009, methodology): “Herkenhoff & Plaut (2000) could find no craters larger than 300 m in the Viking dataset and used that fact to place a 120-thousand-year (Kyr) upper bound on the surface age.”