A revised surface age for the North Polar Layered Deposits of Mars

被引：36

作者：

Landis, Margaret E. ^{[1
]}

Byrne, Shane ^{[1
]}

Daubar, Ingrid J. ^{[2
]}

Herkenhoff, Kenneth E. ^{[3
]}

Dundas, Colin M. ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Arizona, Lunar & Planetary Lab, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA

[2] CALTECH, Jet Prop Lab, Pasadena, CA USA

[3] US Geol Survey, Astrogeol Sci Ctr, Flagstaff, AZ 86001 USA

来源：

GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS | 2016年 / 43卷 / 07期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

CRATERING RATE; STRATIGRAPHY; RATES; CAP; EVOLUTION; EVENTS; SIZE;

D O I：

10.1002/2016GL068434

中图分类号：

P [天文学、地球科学];

学科分类号：

07 ;

摘要：

The North Polar Layered Deposits (NPLD) of Mars contain a complex stratigraphy that has been suggested to retain a record of past eccentricity- and obliquity-forced climate changes. The surface accumulation rate in the current climate can be constrained by the crater retention age. We scale NPLD crater diameters to account for icy target strength and compare surface age using a new production function for recent small impacts on Mars to the previously used model of Hartmann (2005). Our results indicate that ice is accumulating in these craters several times faster than previously thought, with a 100m diameter crater being completely infilled within centuries. Craters appear to have a diameter-dependent lifetime, but the data also permit a complete resurfacing of the NPLD at similar to 1.5 ka.

引用

页码：3060 / 3068

页数：9

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