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Eberswalde post-dates 2 large impact basins, pre-dates Holden Crater, and has Holden ejecta in it MSL Science Team Field Site Discussions — Eberswalde CraterEdgett, p. 3 Notes: See the viewgraphs I presented to the MSL Science Team on 19 May In there, I step through the sequence of events summarized here. 1)A large, multi-ringed impact basin (informally named “Ladon Basin”) formed. 2)While “Ladon Basin” was undergoing modification(erosion, in- filling, and cratering), a new, smaller multi-ringed basin formed (informally named “Holden Basin”). 3)Some time later, one of the many craters that superposed the eroding and in-filling “Holden Basin” was Eberswalde. 4)Still later, Holden Crater formed and some of its ejecta went into Eberswalde. 5)Even later, Uzboi Vallis entered Holden and there was a catastrophic flood. 6)Meanwhile, the delta in Eberswalde was forming. Notes: Where it occurs in Eberswalde, the Holden Crater ejecta blanket would likely include materials disrupted by the Eberswalde impact and materials deposited in the earlier “Holden Basin”. As you will see in Melissa Rice’s presentation today, MSL would have access to this material in the Eberswalde landing ellipse..TRANSCRIPT
MSL Science Team Field Site Discussions — Eberswalde Crater Edgett, p. 1
Eberswalde CraterMSL Candidate Field Site
in Context by K. Edgett, 9 June 2010
drainage basin (and lake beds?) overlying Holden ejecta
“delta”
Holden ejecta
Holden north rim
A Brief History of Eberswalde Region
MSL Science Team Field Site Discussions — Eberswalde Crater Edgett, p. 2
Eberswalde post-dates 2 large impact basins, pre-dates Holden Crater, and has Holden ejecta in it
MSL Science Team Field Site Discussions — Eberswalde Crater Edgett, p. 3
Notes: See the viewgraphs I presented to the MSL Science Team on 19 May 2010. In there, I step through the sequence of events summarized here.
1)A large, multi-ringed impact basin (informally named “Ladon Basin”) formed.
2)While “Ladon Basin” was undergoing modification(erosion, in-filling, and cratering), a new, smaller multi-ringed basin formed (informally named “Holden Basin”).
3)Some time later, one of the many craters that superposed the eroding and in-filling “Holden Basin” was Eberswalde.
4)Still later, Holden Crater formed and some of its ejecta went into Eberswalde.
5)Even later, Uzboi Vallis entered Holden and there was a catastrophic flood.
6)Meanwhile, the delta in Eberswalde was forming.
Notes:
Where it occurs in Eberswalde, the Holden Crater ejecta blanket would likely include materials disrupted by the Eberswalde impact and materials deposited in the earlier “Holden Basin”. As you will see in Melissa Rice’s presentation today, MSL would have access to this material in the Eberswalde landing ellipse.
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Some Features in the Eberswalde Region
MSL Science Team Field Site Discussions — Eberswalde Crater Edgett, p. 4
CTX image on p. 6(light-toned layered rock)
HiRISE image on p. 6(light-toned layered rock)EBERSWALDE
HOLDEN
“Holden Basin” ring mountains
Holden secondary craters
Holden secondary craters
Lado
n Va
llis
deepest part of“Holden Basin”
light-toned rocklight-toned rock
light-toned rock
Notes
A few places where light-toned layered rock outcrops occur outside of Eberswalde and Holden are indicated (this is not all-inclusive).
Eberswalde formed before Holden.
After Holden formed, Mars was still the kind of place where “sediment” could be deposited and become lithified and further eroded. Such light-toned “sedimentary rocks” occur in some of Holden’s secondary craters and in depressions on its ejecta blanket.
The “delta” in Eberswalde formed after the Holden impact occurred.
Much is Missing from Eberswalde
MSL Science Team Field Site Discussions — Eberswalde Crater Edgett, p. 5
It is important to remember:
1)The channels in the “delta” are inverted. Material has been removed.
2)The same is true across the entire Eberswalde crater depositional basin.
3)How rocks are dis-integrated and transported out of a hole in the ground is a concern as well as a common theme across the planet. Gale and Holden present this problem, too.
4)It is an important part of the Eberswalde story: Some of what we are looking for (e.g., lake sediments) may have left the scene long ago.
SOME EXTRA STUFF
MSL Science Team Field Site Discussions — Eberswalde Crater Edgett, p. 6
HiRISE PSP_003222_1565 CTX B18_016777_1580_XN_22S034W
These figures— see locations on p. 4. These are examples of light-toned, layered-rock outcrops in region near Eberswalde. These post-date the Holden Crater-forming impact.