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Geology of Galileo Regio quadrangle, GanymedeGalileo Regio quadrangle, including most of Galileo Regio, contains two basic geologic units: older dark, furrowed, and heavily cratered material and younger light, grooved, relatively less-cratered material. Dark material dominates, the light material occurring to the W and SW in about five percent of the quadrangle. Dominant structural features, of uncertain origin, are the NW-trending arcuate furrows and associated orthogonal and oblique furrows in the dark material; grooves in the light material are not as well-ordered nor as intensely developed as elsewhere on Ganymede. Fifteen palimpsests, located partly or totally in the quadrangle and representing the period when the crust became sufficiently strong to record impact events, are subdivided into three relative-age classes, as are the numerous impact craters, some of which are dome, moat, and rampart-like. Galileo Regio is believed to have formed when, because of cooling, differentiation, and expansion, the thin, weak, icy lithosphere broke into blocks and light material filled the space between, or overspread those blocks that subsided, or both. Grooves formed in most of the light material and both light and dark material were cratered by impact, the most recent of which created bright-ray craters, the youngest features visible in the quadrangle.
Document ID
19940016369
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Underwood, James R., Jr.
(Kansas State Univ. Manhattan, KS, United States)
Casacchia, Ruggero
(Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia Granada, Spain)
Diplanetologia, Reparto
(Viale Univ. Rome, Italy)
Woronow, Alex
(Houston Univ. TX., United States)
Teeling, Michael J.
(Groundwater Technology, Inc. Checktowaga, NY., United States)
Date Acquired
September 6, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1993
Publication Information
Publication: Lunar and Planetary Inst., Twenty-Fourth Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Part 3: N-Z
Subject Category
Lunar And Planetary Exploration
Accession Number
94N20842
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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