Mare volcanism in the lunar farside Moscoviense region: Implication for lateral variation in magma production of the Moon

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 21, 2009, Pages

  Morota, Tomokatsu ^a   Haruyama, Junichi ^a   Honda, Chikatoshi ^b   Ohtake, Makiko ^a   Yokota, Yasuhiro ^a   Kimura, Jun ^c   Matsunaga, Tsuneo ^d   Ogawa, Yoshiko ^b   Hirata, Naru ^b   Demura, Hirohide ^b   Iwasaki, Akira ^e   Miyamoto, Hideaki ^f   Nakamura, Ryosuke ^g   Takeda, Hiroshi ^h   Ishihara, Yoshiaki ⁱ   Sasaki, Sho ⁱ  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AIZU   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^h CHIBA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

ⁱ NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LATERAL VARIATIONS; LONG DURATION; NEW HIGH; THERMAL EVOLUTION;

BASALT; GALLIUM;

MOON;

BASALT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGMA; MOON; THERMAL EVOLUTION; VOLCANISM;

EID: 72049114414     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL040472     Document Type: Article

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