Relative and absolute ages of individual craters and the rate of ...

The rate in the geologically recent past (0.3 aeon) was about two times that found for the period immediately after the last of the major lave outpourings (3.2 ...

This paper contains a reasonably successful attempt to determine relative ages and then absolute ages of individual craters younger than Imbrium, and the rate ...

Relative Ages

Each case, however, is individual. Basin -crater relations. Similar observations help date the extensive deposits of ringed basins relative to one another and ...

Small impact craters in the lunar regolith

The size frequency distributions, relative ages, and absolute age determination of lunar impact craters ranging in diameter from 1 to 100 m are discussed in ...

On the current rate of formation of impact craters of varying sizes on ...

Alvarez, L. W.W. Alvarez · 10.1126/science.208.4448.1095 ; Baldwin, R. B. · Relative and absolute ages of individual craters and the rate of infalls on the moon in ...

On the current rate of formation of impact craters of varying sizes on ...

Relative and absolute ages of individual craters and the rate of infalls on the moon in the post-imbrium period. Icarus, 1985. ASTEROID AND COMET BOMBARDMENT ...

Their morphologies, relative ages, and rates of formation

crater frequency distributions, and. (2) locating individual craters with known absolute ages, diameters, and the value of. Dcs derived from crater frequency ...

daubar_etal_icarus_2013.pdf - Lunar and Planetary Laboratory

The result is a set of cratering chronology models used widely on Mars to obtain absolute ages for landscapes (e.g.. Hartmann and Neukum, 2001; ...

Ages of large lunar impact craters and implications for bombardment ...

craters), much of the early post-Apollo crater age dating was based on ... Relative and absolute ages of individual craters and the rate of · infalls on ...

characteristics of the moon's young crater population: caught ...

determining their relative and absolute ages, represent valuable tools in ... individual rayed craters, and indeed, of individual rays, have been well ...

Absolute model ages from lunar crater morphology - Trang - 2015

The degradation state of an impact crater is an indicator of its age. Previous workers have used crater degradation states to estimate ages ...

Determining the age of surfaces on Mars

The largest bodies (the ones that would form the largest craters) were used up before the smaller ones, since there were fewer of the larger ones to start with.

Problems determining relative and absolute ages using the small ...

Furthermore, smaller craters (up to 100 m in diameter) are less indicative of the age of the surface than larger craters, while simultaneously being more ...

Relative and absolute ages in the histories of Earth and the Moon

The other way we use craters to age-date surfaces is simply to count the craters. At its simplest, surfaces with more craters have been exposed ...

A Determination of the Absolute Ages of Seven Front Face Lunar ...

Relative and absolute ages of individual craters and the rate of infalls on the moon in the post-Imbrium period. Icarus 61, 63-91. Baldwin, R.B., 1987a. On ...

Statistical fluctuation of crater production frequency and its effect on ...

Baldwin, R. B., Relative and absolute ages of individual craters and the rate of infalls on the moon in the post-imbrium period, Icarus, 61, 63– ...

2. Absolute age dating - Digital Atlas of Ancient Life

Absolute age dating deals with assigning actual dates (in years before the present) to rocks or geological events. Contrast this with relative age dating, ...

Absolute model ages of lunar craters - Astronomy Stack Exchange

So, if a surface has more craters than another surface, on the same planetary body, then it can be assumed to be older than the surface with ...

Determining the Relative Cratering Ages of Regions of Psyche's ...

These data will then be used to constrain relative and absolute ages of Psyche's terrains, and impact-related processes will inform other ...

Simulated degradation of lunar impact craters and a new method for ...

templates for determining the age of individual craters within any ... Hahn, Small impact craters in the lunar regolith-their morphologies, relative ages, and ...