Dissolution Geology on Titan sketch by James Tuttle Keane
Graphical notes of presentation presented by Malaska et al., during the Geological Society of America annual meeting in 2016.
In the graphic, the steep-sided lakes and empty basins on Saturn's moon Titan are consistent with karstic dissolution of the surrounding landscape. The graphic in the upper right shows how a plateau can be slowly dissolved to give sinkholes, then polygonal "egg-box" terrain, then finally remnant ridges. These are consistent with the terrains observed by the Cassini spacecraft during it's flybys of Saturn's moon Titan.
Link to presentation abstract here: gsa.confex.com/gsa/2016AM/webprogram/Paper287364.html
graphic credit: James Tuttle Keane (@jtuttlekeane)
Dissolution Geology on Titan sketch by James Tuttle Keane
Graphical notes of presentation presented by Malaska et al., during the Geological Society of America annual meeting in 2016.
In the graphic, the steep-sided lakes and empty basins on Saturn's moon Titan are consistent with karstic dissolution of the surrounding landscape. The graphic in the upper right shows how a plateau can be slowly dissolved to give sinkholes, then polygonal "egg-box" terrain, then finally remnant ridges. These are consistent with the terrains observed by the Cassini spacecraft during it's flybys of Saturn's moon Titan.
Link to presentation abstract here: gsa.confex.com/gsa/2016AM/webprogram/Paper287364.html
graphic credit: James Tuttle Keane (@jtuttlekeane)