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Large Layered Outcrops, Today's MOC image
SigurRosFan
post Oct 27 2005, 05:27 PM
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Oudemans Layers

http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/10/27/


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post Oct 27 2005, 06:41 PM
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QUOTE (SigurRosFan @ Oct 27 2005, 05:27 PM)
Oudemans Layers

http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/10/27/
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WOOOW! ohmy.gif

How SO THICK a layered pattern could be so much TILTED and folded? This implies tectonic movements. Perhaps this is a remnant of a very ancient time where there was still plate tectonic on Mars, and we see a piece of a continent (there are some evidences of former plate tectonics on Mars, but it lasted not long enough to form continents).

Or more likely it shows one of these regions in the south west of Tharsis dome where there are large folds. But where the layers come from? At what epoch they formed? Tharsis lava flows, or much more ancient?

Note that these folds at South West of Tharsis are "recent" as they are a consequence of the Tharsis dome formation

Perhaps a priority target for a future rover...

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post Oct 28 2005, 12:35 AM
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QUOTE (Richard Trigaux @ Oct 28 2005, 04:41 AM)
Perhaps a priority target for a future rover...
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I'd vote for that, what an amazing site! ohmy.gif


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- SigurRosFan   Large Layered Outcrops   Oct 27 2005, 05:27 PM
- - Richard Trigaux   QUOTE (SigurRosFan @ Oct 27 2005, 05:27 PM)Ou...   Oct 27 2005, 06:41 PM
|- - jamescanvin   QUOTE (Richard Trigaux @ Oct 28 2005, 04:41 A...   Oct 28 2005, 12:35 AM
- - SigurRosFan   More ripples in Oudemans Crater (southern area of ...   Oct 28 2005, 09:49 AM
- - Richard Trigaux   If the folded layers are into a crater, that means...   Oct 28 2005, 10:26 AM
- - SigurRosFan   These outcrops were once in the ground beneath the...   Oct 28 2005, 12:17 PM

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