Correlation of deep moonquakes and mare basalts: Implications for lunar mantle structure and evolution

Icarus

Volumn 220, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 100-105

  Qin, Chuan ^a   Muirhead, Alicia C ^a   Zhong, Shijie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Geophysics; Moon, Interior; Moon, Surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861154116     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2012.04.023     Document Type: Article

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