The geology of Schrödinger basin: Insights from post-Lunar Orbiter data

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 477, Issue , 2011, Pages 95-115

  Mest, Scott C ^a,b  

^a PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUNAR MISSIONS; POLES; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; VOLCANOES;

EFFUSIVE ERUPTIONS; GEOLOGIC MAPPING; LUNAR PROSPECTORS; LUNAR RECONNAISSANCE ORBITERS; SOUTH POLAR REGION; SOUTH POLE-AITKEN; SOUTH POLE-AITKEN BASINS; VOLCANIC FORMATION;

ORBITS;

BASIN; CRATER; EMPLACEMENT; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; LOWER CRUST; LUNAR CRUST; MOON; POLAR REGION; UPPER MANTLE; VOLCANISM;

CITRUS RETICULATA;

EID: 80051710101     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2011.2477(04)     Document Type: Article

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