Lunar 'cataclysm' - A misconception

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Feb 1975

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1975icar...24..181h&link_type=abstract

Icarus, vol. 24, Feb. 1975, p. 181-187. Research supported by the Planetary Science Institute of Science Applications.

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Astronomical Models, Chronology, Impact Damage, Lunar Evolution, Lunar Craters, Lunar Rocks, Morphology, Selenology

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Models for cataclysms have not been clearly defined; some involve major impacts creating large basins (an idea incorporated in present and pre-Apollo evolutionary theories), while others involve catastrophist theories (abandonment of smooth, monotonic changes of cratering rate during time throughout the size spectrum). The scarcity of old (older than 4 AE) lunar rocks is here derived as a natural consequence of known paleocratering chronology. Explosive mega-regolith formation prior to 4 AE brecciated and heated most earlier material, but no unaccountable cratering episode is evident.

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