Physics
Scientific paper
Jul 1974
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1974plug.nasa..275s&link_type=abstract
In NASA. Ames Res. Center A Primer in Lunar Geology p 275-291 (SEE N75-13730 04-91)
Physics
Lunar Maria, Lunar Surface, Photointerpretation, Structural Basins, Lunar Craters, Lunar Evolution, Lunar Geology, Lunar Orbiter, Lunar Photographs, Pattern Recognition
Scientific paper
Lunar orbiter data make it possible to examine the distribution and relations of maria and large circular basins over the entire moon. The restricted distribution and age of the maria are in marked contrast to the apparently random distribution in time and place of the circular basins, some of which contain mare fillings. The circular basins are believed to be impact scars, and the maria to be volcanic fills which in each case are younger than the structures they fill. Twenty-nine circular basins 300 km wide or wider are recognized. They are placed in an age sequence because successive stages of degradation can be recognized from the fresh Orientale basin to the almost obliterated basin containing Mare Australe.
Howard Keith A.
Stuart-Alexander D. E.
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