Rugged crater ejecta as a guide to megaregolith thickness in the southern nearside of the Moon

Geology

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 655-658

  Thompson, Thomas W ^a   Campbell, Bruce A ^b   Ghent, Rebecca R ^c   Hawke, B Ray ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRATER POPULATION; CRUSTAL BLOCK; IMPACT CRATERS; SOUTH POLE-AITKEN;

RADAR;

BASIN; CRATER; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EJECTA; MOON; REGOLITH;

EID: 69649093628     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G25565A.1     Document Type: Article

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