What Made the Doughnuts Inside Lunar Concentric Craters?

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What Made the Doughnuts Inside Lunar Concentric Craters? Most concentric craters are > 3 billion years old Most occur near highlands/maria boundaries. They have unusually shallow depths. No differences in compositions between crater floors and surrounding area. 11.5-km-diameter unnamed concentric crater Overview: Concentric ridges inside small lunar craters may have formed when intrusion of magma caused uplift of the crater floor. Summary: Nearly all lunar impact craters smaller than 15 kilometers in diameter come in one basic shape, a circular bowl with a rim around it. However, there is a category, called concentric craters, with the basic crater and rim, plus a doughnut-shaped feature within the crater that is concentric to the crater rim. Jeffrey Gillis-Davis (University of Hawai‘i), the late B. Ray Hawke, and I (still at the University of Hawai‘i) decided to take on the task of determining how these concentric craters formed. After long meticulous measurements of their shape, determining their composition, examining their spatial relationship on the lunar surface, and calculating their age, we find that these craters are regular impact craters that experienced intrusions of magma beneath them. Each intrusion pushed on the material around the crater causing the construction of the concentric doughnut-shaped topographic ridge. Figures [left]: Lunar crater Hesiodus A (at 17.1oW, 30.1oS) has a diameter of 15 km. Its concentric ridge is visible in this LROC wide angle camera (WAC) image and in the horizontal profile determined with Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) data. Profile's vertical exaggeration is 4x. [right]: LROC narrow angle camera (NAC) image (oblique view) of an unnamed concentric crater, 11.5 km in diameter, located in Apollo basin on the Moon. Reference: Trang D., Gillis-Davis J. J., and Hawke B. R. (2016) The Origin of Lunar Concentric Craters, Icarus, v. 278, p. 62-78, doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2016.06.001. 15-km-diameter Hesiodus A crater Doughnut-shaped concentric ridges inside small lunar craters (<15 km diameters) may have formed when intrusion of magma caused uplift of the crater floor.