Rugged lava flows on the Moon revealed by Earth-based radar

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 22, 2009, Pages

  Campbell, Bruce A ^a   Hawke, B Ray ^b   Carter, Lynn M ^a   Ghent, Rebecca R ^c   Campbell, Donald B ^d  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d Department of Astronomy   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALTIC VOLCANISM; COMPOSITIONAL VARIATION; EFFUSION RATES; FLOOD BASALT; HIGH FLOW VELOCITY; LAVA FLOWS; LONG WAVELENGTH; LOW VISCOSITY; LUNAR SURFACE; RADAR OBSERVATIONS; SHALLOW SUBSURFACE; SHEET-LIKE;

BACKSCATTERING; BASALT; RADAR; VISCOSITY;

MOON;

BASALT; EPISODIC EVENT; LAVA FLOW; LUNAR MANTLE; MAGMA; POLARIZATION; RADAR IMAGERY; SUBSURFACE FLOW; VISCOSITY; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANISM; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 72049084475     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041087     Document Type: Article

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