14-680: (Redirected from Amazonians ) [REDACTED] Look up amazonian in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Amazonian may refer to: Amazonian (Mars) , a geologic system and time period on the planet Mars Amazon River , in South America Amazon basin , that river's drainage basin Amazon rainforest , rainforest covering most of the Amazon Basin Relating to
28-436: A geologic period represents the time interval over which the strata of a system were deposited, including any unknown amounts of time present in gaps. Periods are measured in years, determined by radioactive dating . On Mars, radiometric ages are not available except from Martian meteorites whose provenance and stratigraphic context are unknown. Instead, absolute ages on Mars are determined by impact crater density, which
42-603: A given system are apt to contain gaps ( unconformities ) analogous to missing pages from a book. In some places, rocks from the system are absent entirely due to nondeposition or later erosion. For example, rocks of the Cretaceous System are absent throughout much of the eastern central interior of the United States. However, the time interval of the Cretaceous (Cretaceous Period) still occurred there. Thus,
56-485: Is an idealized stratigraphic column based on the physical rock record of a type area (type section) correlated with rocks sections from many different locations planetwide. A system is bound above and below by strata with distinctly different characteristics (on Earth, usually index fossils ) that indicate dramatic (often abrupt) changes in the dominant fauna or environmental conditions. (See Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary as example.) At any location, rock sections in
70-401: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Amazonian (Mars) The Amazonian is a geologic system and time period on the planet Mars characterized by low rates of meteorite and asteroid impacts and by cold, hyperarid conditions broadly similar to those on Mars today. The transition from the preceding Hesperian period
84-477: Is heavily dependent upon models of crater formation over time. Accordingly, the beginning and end dates for Martian periods are uncertain, especially for the Hesperian/Amazonian boundary, which may be in error by a factor of 2 or 3. Type locality (geology) Type locality , also called type area , is the locality where a particular rock type , stratigraphic unit or mineral species
98-489: Is somewhat poorly defined. The Amazonian is thought to have begun around 3 billion years ago, although error bars on this date are extremely large (~500 million years). The period is sometimes subdivided into the Early, Middle, and Late Amazonian. The Amazonian continues to the present day. The Amazonian period has been dominated by impact crater formation and Aeolian processes with ongoing isolated volcanism occurring in
112-800: The Amazons , female warrior tribe in Greek mythology Amazonian, an employee of the company Amazon.com Amazonian, a fictional species in the Futurama episode " Amazon Women in the Mood " Amazonians, people who live in the Amazon basin Indigenous peoples in Brazil See also [ edit ] Amazon (disambiguation) All pages with titles containing Amazonian Topics referred to by
126-520: The Tharsis region and Cerberus Fossae , including signs of activity as recently as a tens of thousands of years ago in the latter and within the past few million years on Olympus Mons , implying they may still be active but dormant in the present. The Amazonian System and Period is named after Amazonis Planitia , which has a sparse crater density over a wide area. Such densities are representative of many Amazonian-aged surfaces. The type area of
140-658: The Amazonian System is in the Amazonis quadrangle (MC-8) around 15°N 158°W / 15°N 158°W / 15; -158 . Because it is the youngest of the Martian periods, the chronology of the Amazonian is comparatively well understood through traditional geological laws of superposition coupled to the relative dating technique of crater counting . The scarcity of craters characteristic of
154-404: The Amazonian also means that unlike the older periods, fine scale (<100 m) surface features are preserved. This enables detailed, process-orientated study of many Amazonian-age surface features of Mars as the necessary details of form of the surface are still visible. Furthermore, the relative youth of this period means that over the past few 100 million years it remains possible to reconstruct
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#1732794557451168-547: The imposed solar flux – mean that much research on the Amazonian of Mars has focussed on understanding its climate , and the surface processes that respond to the climate. This has included: Good preservation has also enabled detailed studies of other geological processes on Amazonian Mars, notably volcanic processes , brittle tectonics , and cratering processes . System and Period are not interchangeable terms in formal stratigraphic nomenclature, although they are frequently confused in popular literature. A system
182-415: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Amazonian . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amazonian&oldid=1017648252 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
196-519: The statistics of the orbital mechanics of the Sun , Mars , and Jupiter without the patterns being overwhelmed by chaotic effects, and from this to reconstruct the variation of solar insolation – the amount of heat from the sun – reaching Mars through time. Climatic variations have been shown to occur in cycles not dissimilar in magnitude and duration to terrestrial Milankovich cycles . Together, these features – good preservation, and an understanding of
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