Global Inventory of Lunar Impact Melt as a Function of Parent Crater Size

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Mar 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996lpi....27.1379w&link_type=abstract

Lunar and Planetary Science, volume 27, page 1379

Physics

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Basins: Lunar, Craters: Lunar, Ejecta: Crater, Melts: Impact, Moon

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The size-frequency distribution of lunar impact melt has been estimated by extrapolation from the crater size-frequency distribution estimates of Strom and Neukum (1988). Results indicate that the overwhelming proportion of all lunar impact melt originated during formation of a relative few large basins (most notably South Pole Aitken). This proportion is so high that among the near-surface population of lunar rocks (available as samples) impact "melt rocks" formed as basin-splash ejecta are probably more abundant than melt rocks formed as portions of large, homogeneous central sheets of impact melt.

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