The Filling of the Lunar Mare Basins

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Mar 1973

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1973moon....7..239r&link_type=abstract

The Moon, Volume 7, Issue 1-2, pp. 239-248

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The surface of each mare is not a homogeneous geomorphological unit, but displays a variety of geomorphologies. The interpretation of this phenomenon depends on the assumptions one is willing to accept. If the filling of the mare basins occurred relatively slowly, then the geomorphologies are a time function and indicate a time span of not less than three quarters of a billion years between the beginning and the end of the mare filling activity. If, on the other hand, the maria were filled by lava immediately after the basin formation and remained liquid for a relatively long time during which the extensive bombardment stopped, then the different morphologies indicate vagaries in the final stages of the bombardment and of the cooling history.

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