DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14928664
title: Data from "Large bombardment in the Inner Solar System from faulting in basins on Mars"

description: Accompaning data for the research article "Large bombardment in the Inner Solar System from faulting in basins on Mars". Data includes: (i) a catalogue of circular structures on Mars reported as impact basins with diameter larger than 150 km; and (ii) input files for iSALE2D simulations of large impacts on Mars shown in the article's main text and extended data. 

The columns of the basin catalogue read as follows. Crater name, certer latitude and center longigute were compiled from multiple sources. Further details are available in the Methods section of the accompanying paper.




field
description


id_r2012
crater id from Robbins & Hynek (2012).


name
crater name


certainty
certainty of impact origin for the reported crater (this work)


lat
center latitude


lon
center longitude


Dre_r2012
reported circular diameter from Robbins & Hynek (2012)


Dre_r2013
reported circular diameter from Robbins et al. (2013).


Dre_l2013
reported circular diameter from Lillis et al. (2013)


Dre_sm2024
reported circular diameter from Simone Marchi (2024, personal communication)


Dre_a2010
reported circular diameter from Andrews-Hanna et al. (2010)


Ea_ah2010
reported semi-major axis from Andrews-Hanna et al. (2010)


Eb_ah2010
reported semi-minor axis from Andrews-Hanna et al. (2010)


Dre_fav
favoured reported circular diameter


age_ha_r2013
age estimate using the Hartmann production function from Robbins et al. (2013)


age_ne_r2013
age estimate using the Neukum production function from Robbins et al. (2013)


age_r2013
age estimate from Robbins et al. (2013)


age_f2008
age estimate from Frey (2008)


age_w2008
age estimate from Werner (2008)


age_fav
favoured age estimate


ct_avg
pre-impact crustal thickness measured after Goosens et al. (2017)


Imp_Dre
impactor size estimate based on favoured reported diameter using scaling from Branco et al. (2024) (this work)


Df
rescaled/final crater diameter (this work)


Imp_df
impactor size estimate based on rescaled/final diameter using scaling from Branco et al. (2024) (this work)




References:

Andrews-Hanna, J. C. & Zuber, M. T. Elliptical craters and basins on the terrestrial planets. In: Gibson, R. L. & Reimold, W. U. (eds.) (2010). Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution IV: Geological Society of America Special Paper 465, p. 1–13, doi: 10.1130/2010.2465(01).

Branco, H. C.; Miljkovic, K. & Plesa, A. C. (2024). New numerically derived scaling relationships for impact basins on Mars. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 129, e2023JE008217. doi: 10.1029/2023JE008217.

Frey, H. (2008). Ages of very large impact basins on Mars: Implications for the late heavy bombardment in the inner solar system. Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L13203. doi: 10.1029/2008GL033515

Goossens, S. et al. (2017). Evidence for a low bulk crustal density for Mars from gravity and topography. Geophysical Research Letters, 44 (15). doi:10.1002/2017GL074172.

Lillis, R.; Robbins, S.; Manga, M.; Halekas, J. S. & Frey, H. V. (2013). Time history of the Martian dynamo from crater magnetic field analysis. Journal of Geophysical R6 esearch: Planets, 118:1488-1511. doi:10.1002/jgre.20105

Robbins, S. J. & Hynek, B. M. (2012). A new global database of Mars impact craters ≥1 km: 1. Database creation, properties, and parameters. Journal of Geophysical Research, 117, E05004. doi: 10.1029/2011JE003966

Robbins, J. S.; Hynek, B. M.; Lillis, R. J. & Bottke, W. F. (2013). Large impact crater histories of Mars: The effect of different model crater age techniques. Icarus, 225, 173-184. doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2013.03.019

Werner, S. C. (2008). The early martian evolution - Constraints from basin formation ages. Icarus, 195, 45-60. doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2007.12.008.