Seismic tomography and geochemical evidence for lunar mantle heterogeneity: Comparing with Earth

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 90-91, Issue , 2012, Pages 29-36

  Zhao, Dapeng ^a   Arai, Tomoko ^b   Liu, Lucy ^a   Ohtani, Eiji ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHIBA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apollo missions; Moon; Moonquakes; Procellarum KREEP Terrane; Seismic tomography; Thorium abundance

Indexed keywords

APOLLO MISSIONS; MOONQUAKES; PROCELLARUM KREEP TERRANE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; THORIUM ABUNDANCES;

EARTHQUAKES; SEISMOGRAPHS; THORIUM;

MOON;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; GEOCHEMICAL METHOD; HETEROGENEITY; LUNAR CRUST; LUNAR MANTLE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TERRANE; THORIUM; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 84862776822     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2012.01.004     Document Type: Article

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