Compositional gradients across mare-highland contacts: Importance and geological implication of lateral transport

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 105, Issue E8, 2000, Pages 20431-20450

  Li, Lin ^a   Mustard, John F ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUNAR CRUST; LUNAR SOIL; MAPPING; MOON;

EID: 0033759482     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999JE001168     Document Type: Article

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