Characteristics of Mare Deposits on the Eastern Limb of the Moon: Implications for Magma Transport Mechanisms

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Mar 1996

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Lunar and Planetary Science, volume 27, page 1479

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Lava Ponds, Mare, Marginis, Smythii, Volcanism

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Lunar volcanic history has been examined in light of geomorphological and stratigraphic constraints placed upon the surface features. Compositional and petrological analyses have provided models for the conditions of mare parent magma generation . The connection between lunar magma source regions and volcanic surface features remains unclear, however, both conceptually and quantitatively with respect to our understanding of transport mechanisms. It has been suggested that mare emplacement was controlled by propagation of dikes driven by the overpressurization of diapir-like source regions stalled below the cooling lunar highland crust. Recent analyses of the characteristics of lava ponds in the South Pole/Aitken and Orientale/Mendel-Rydberg basins based on Clementine, Lunar Orbiter and Zond data have provided evidence that supports this theory. In this contribution we report on an analysis of the areas, volumes, modes of occurrence and crustal thicknesses for mare deposits in the Marginis and Smythii basins, and investigate implications for magma transport mechanisms.

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