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Zisk et al. 1991
Zisk, S.H., Campbell, B.C., Pettengill, G.H. and Brockelman, R. (1991). Alphonsus Crater: Floor fracture and dark-mantle deposit distribution from new 3.0-cm radar images. Geophysical Research Letters 18: doi: 10.1029/91GL02619. issn: 0094-8276.

The lunar crater Alphonsus is characterized by numerous fractures or graben, and by endogenic dark-halo craters. Existing maps of fractures from analysis of lunar photography may be biased by the east-west solar illumination. This paper presents new high-resolution, dual-polarization 3.0-cm wavelength radar images of Alphonsus with radar illumination from northernly directions, and uses these data to better map the locations of both the graben and a variety of dark-mantle deposits. The distribution of fractures, and several graben which cut the crater floor and central ridge, are cited and possible evidence for simultaneous, post-Imbrium uplift of both structures. Some of the endogenic dark halo deposits are more extensive in depolarized radar images than in photographs; these extensions are attributed in some cases to more distant emplacement of pyroclastic material, and in others to fortuitous connections with smoother, less cratered portions of the Alphonsus floor. ¿American Geophysical Union 1991

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Planetology, Solid Surface Planets and Satellites, Cratering, Planetology, Solid Surface Planets and Satellites, Tectonics, Planetology, Solid Surface Planets and Satellites, Volcanism
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Geophysical Research Letters
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