Lithospheric Stress and Basaltic Magma Ascent on the Moon, with Implications for Large Volcanic Provinces and Edifices

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Mar 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011lpi....42.2587m&link_type=abstract

42nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, held March 7–11, 2011 at The Woodlands, Texas. LPI Contribution No. 1608, p.2587

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The response of the lunar lithosphere to mare loading creates a pressure
distribution on dikes at basin margins that is particularly favorable to
magma ascent, accounting for the presence of large volcanic
provinces/edifices peripheral to Imbrium and Serenitatis.

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