Folds on Europa: implications for crustal cycling and accommodation of extension.
Regional-scale undulations with associated small-scale secondary structures are inferred to be folds on Jupiter's moon Europa. Formation is consistent with stresses from tidal deformation, potentially triggering compressional instability of a region of locally high thermal gradient. Folds may compensate for extension elsewhere on Europa and then relax away over time.
Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, MS 7-366, 11100 Johns Hopkins Road, Laurel, MD 20723, USA. louise.prockter@jhuapl.edu
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