Origin of nearside structural and geochemical anomalies on the Moon

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 477, Issue , 2011, Pages 141-159

  Schultz, Peter H ^a   Crawford, David A ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; SHOCK WAVES; STRATIGRAPHY;

COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENT; GEOCHEMICAL ANOMALY; INITIAL CONDITIONS; OBLIQUE COLLISION; RADIAL SYSTEMS; SHALLOW RESERVOIRS; SOUTH POLE-AITKEN BASINS; UNDERLYING CAUSE;

MOON;

ANOMALY; BASIN; GEOCHEMISTRY; GRABEN; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; MAGMA; MARE BASALT; MOON; SHOCK WAVE;

EID: 80051721239     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2011.2477(07)     Document Type: Article

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