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Publicación Restringido Effect of Target Layering in Gravity-Dominated Cratering in Nature, Experiments, and Numerical Simulations(AGU Publishing, 2024-04-26) Ormö, Jens; Raducan, S. D.; Housen, K. R.; Wünnemann, K.; Collins, Gareth; Rossi, Angelo Pio; Melero-Asensio, Irene; Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC); Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI); European Research Council (ERC); Centro de Astrobiología del Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial y CSIC, MDM-2017-0737Impacts into layered targets may generate “concentric craters” where a wider outer crater in the top layer surrounds a smaller, nested crater in the basement, which itself may be complex or simple. The influence of target on cratering depends on the ratio of target strength to lithostatic stress, which, in turn, is affected by gravity, target density, and crater diameter. When this ratio is large, the crater size is primarily determined by target strength, whereas gravitational forces dominate when the ratio is small. In two-layer targets, strength may dominate in one or both layers, whereby the outer crater develops in the weaker top layer and the nested crater in the stronger substrate. However, large natural craters that should be gravity-dominated in both cover strata and substrate may be concentric, the reasons for which are not yet fully understood. We performed qualitative impact experiments at 10–502 G and 1.8 km/s with the Boeing Corp. Hypervelocity centrifuge gun, and at 1 G and 0.4 km/s with the CAB CSIC-INTA gas gun into layered sand targets of different compositions and grain densities but similar granulometry to analyze gravity-dominated cratering. The results are compared with iSALE-2D numerical simulations and natural craters on Earth and Mars. We show that target layering also affects the excavation process and concentric crater formation in gravity-dominated impacts. The most important factors are the density and internal friction of each target layer, respectively. We propose that this is also valid for natural craters of sizes that should make their formation gravity-dominated.
