Degradation of Small Simple and Large Complex Lunar Craters: Not a Simple Scale-dependence
Description
We simulated the surface evolution for a pre-Nectarian surface unit and found that relative to their size, large complex craters are less destructive to the surrounding terrain than small simple craters. The data is structured as follows: 01_CTEM_Outputs - .dat files in which the craters from the simulations are stored - Python script to convert the .dat files to shapefiles 02_Shapefiles_From_CTEM_Outputs - Shapefiles in which the craters from the simulations are stored - Shapefile of the surrounding area (created manually) 03_CSFD_Measurements - A modified version of CSFD Tools to conduct Cartesian crater size-frequency distribution measurements - .scc files which contain the results from the Traditional Crater Counting and Non-sparseness Correction techniques (for further analysis in Craterstats) 04_Crater_Statistics - .stat files which contain crater size-frequency distribution statistics (obtained from the Craterstats software) 05_Crater_Equilibrium - simplified .stat files which contain cumulative number density information - Python script to fit a power law function to the simplified .stat files 06_Geometric_Saturation_Levels - .stat files which contain crater size-frequency distribution statistics (obtained from the Craterstats software) - Python script to calculate geometric saturation levels from .stat files - .txt files containing geometric satration levels Data by Orgel et al. (2018) are availiable here: http://www.planet.geo.fu-berlin.de/Orgel_etal_2017_Lunar_basins.zip