Lateral variations of lunar crustal thickness from the Apollo seismic data set

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 243, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 1-14

  Chenet, H ^a,d   Lognonne Ph ^b   Wieczorek, M ^b   Mizutani, H ^a,c  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^c Newton Press Inc   (Japan)

^d Etudes Spatiales et Planétologie ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Apollo seismic data; Crustal thickness; Gravity; Lunar seismology; Meteoroid impacts; Topography

Indexed keywords

APOLLO LUNAR SEISMIC NETWORK; APOLLO SEISMIC DATA; LUNAR SEISMOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; GRAVITATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; METEOR IMPACTS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MOON; SEISMIC WAVES;

SEISMOLOGY;

MOON; SEISMICITY;

EID: 33344468390     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.12.017     Document Type: Article

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