The deep structure of lunar basins - Implications for basin formation and modification

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Mar 1985

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985jgr....90.3049b&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 90, March 10, 1985, p. 3049-3064.

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Lunar Crust, Lunar Mantle, Lunar Surface, Structural Basins, Structural Properties (Geology), Gravity Anomalies, Impact, Topography, Volcanology, Moon, Basins, Structure, Depth, Formation, Models, Crust, Mantle, Impacts, Gravity Properties, Topography, Uplift, Magnetude, Age, Flows, Temperature, Thermal Properties, Lithosphere, Heating, Procellarum, Oceanus, Geometry, Ejecta, Volume, Thickness, Strength

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Models for the crustal structure in the vicinity of nine impact basins, from an inversion of gravity and topographic data from the lunar nearside are presented. The models display a low-density nonmare crustal layer and a mare basalt layer, both of variable thicknesses. Assuming that topography in mare areas is isostatically compensated before the emplacement of mare basalts and that compensation of mare basalt units may be neglected, a decomposition of the gravity anomaly into contributions from Moho relief and mare fill is permitted. Minimum values for mare basalt thicknesses are obtained but because mare basalts and mantle material are similar in density, the thicknesses of the nonmare crust are estimated. An important constraint is the crustal thickness inferred from the Apollo 12 and 14 landing sites from seismic observations. The crustal thickness model indicates that the crust is thinner beneath each of the major nearside basins than in surrounding areas. New bounds on the volume of material ejected from each basin are derived. The geological implications of structural differences among basins for the processes of basin formation and modification are evaluated as functions of time on the moon.

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