The effect of lunar crust structure on impact crater formation

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Mar 1989

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1989avest..23...60l&link_type=abstract

Astronomicheskii Vestnik (ISSN 0320-930X), vol. 23, Jan.-Mar. 1989, p. 60-70. In Russian.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Lunar Craters, Lunar Crust, Meteoritic Damage, Selenology, Compression Waves, Hypervelocity Impact, Seismic Energy, Wave Propagation

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A semiquantitative model for the propagation of compression waves generated during a supersonic impact in a continuously stratified medium with single discontinuities representing the planetary crust is calculated. Seismic ray paths for the lunar crust are calculated. It is shown that an increase in the compression wave propagation velocity with depth causes the seismic energy to concentrate in a near-surface zone centered on the impact site.

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