Lunar mare deposits associated with the Orientale impact basin: New insights into mineralogy, history, mode of emplacement, and relation to Orientale Basin evolution from Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) data from Chandrayaan-1

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Whitten, Jennifer ^a   Head, James W ^a   Staid, Matthew ^b   Pieters, Carle M ^a   Mustard, John ^a   Clark, Roger ^c   Nettles, Jeff ^a   Klima, Rachel L ^a,d   Taylor, Larry ^e  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; EMPLACEMENT; IMPACT; LUNAR CRUST; MARE BASALT; MINERALOGY; MOON; VOLCANISM;

EID: 79955505599     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JE003736     Document Type: Article

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