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GSA Special Papers
Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution IV
Author(s)
Roger L. Gibson;
Roger L. Gibson
Impact Cratering Research Group, School of Geosciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Wolf Uwe Reimold
Wolf Uwe Reimold
Museum für Naturkunde-Leibniz Institute at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
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Geological Society of America

Volume
465
Copyright:
© 2010 Geological Society of America
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ISBN print:
9780813724652
Publication date:
September 01, 2010
Book Chapter
Polygonal impact craters in the solar system: Observations and implications
Author(s)
T. Öhman
Department of Geosciences, Division of Geology, P.O. Box 3000, University of Oulu, FI-90014, Finland, and Department of Physics, Division of Astronomy, P.O. Box 3000, University of Oulu, FI-90014, Finland
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T. Öhman
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M. Aittola
Department of Physics, Division of Astronomy, P.O. Box 3000, University of Oulu, FI-90014, Finland
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M. Aittola
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J. Korteniemi
Department of Physics, Division of Astronomy, P.O. Box 3000, University of Oulu, FI-90014, Finland, and Institut für Planetologie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Wilhelm-Klemm-Strasse 10, D-48149 Münster, Germany
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J. Korteniemi
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V.-P. Kostama
Department of Physics, Division of Astronomy, P.O. Box 3000, University of Oulu, FI-90014, Finland
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V.-P. Kostama
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J. Raitala
Department of Physics, Division of Astronomy, P.O. Box 3000, University of Oulu, FI-90014, Finland
J. Raitala
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Published:September 01, 2010
Impact crater formation is sometimes affected by preexisting target inhomogeneities like faults or joint sets in ways that cause the plan view of the crater to deviate from the idealized circular shape. The resulting polygonal impact craters have been known to exist on the Moon for over a century, and they have been subsequently identified on all types of solid surface bodies in the solar system, including all the terrestrial planets. Newly identified polygonal impact craters in the central southern near-side highlands of the Moon display a size distribution clearly different from the nonpolygonal craters, confirming earlier results: lunar polygonal...
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