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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
卷 44, 期 20, 页码 10171-10179出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2017GL075298
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- Science and Technology Development Fund of Macau [075/2014/A2, 039/2013/A2]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41422110, 41403053]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, Minor Planet Foundation of Purple Mountain Observatory, China University of Geosciences [CUG130106]
Whether or not background secondary craters dominate populations of small impact craters on terrestrial bodies is a half-century controversy. It has been suggested that small craters on some planetary bodies are dominated by background secondary craters based partly on the steepened slope of crater size-frequency distribution (CSFD) toward small diameters, such as the less than similar to 1 km diameter crater population on the lunar mare. Here we show that topography degradation enlarges craters and increases CSFD slopes with time. When topography degradation is taken into account, for various-aged crater populations, the observed steep CSFD at small diameters is uniformly consistent with an originally shallower CSFD, whose slope is undifferentiated from the CSFD slope estimated from near-Earth objects and terrestrial bolides. The results show that the effect of topography degradation on CSFD is important in dating planetary surfaces, and the steepening of CSFD slopes is not necessarily caused by secondary cratering, but rather a natural consequence of topography degradation.
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