Physical processes involved in recent activity within the moon

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Jun 1977

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1977pepi...14..330r&link_type=abstract

(NASA and Lunar Science Institute, Special Symposium on the Recent Activity in the Moon, Houston, Tex., Mar. 16, 1976.) Physics

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Lunar Surface, Moonquakes, Optical Properties, Outgassing, Transient Response, Argon Isotopes, Lunar Maria, Mascons, Radon Isotopes, Tides

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The spatial and temporal correlation possessed by moonquakes, lunar transient phenomena (LTP), and episodic emissions of Rn and Ar is taken as the starting point for possible explanations of these pieces of evidence for activity within the moon. Sudden venting of volatiles from the lunar interior through lithospheric faults is considered as an explanation for LTP observed around the edges of circular maria. The vertical subsidence of mascons is suggested to be the source of some moonquakes as well as of the episodic Ar and Rn emissions. It is concluded that shallow moonquakes are produced by tidal-stress-induced mascon subsidence along postulated cylindrical fault systems in the lithosphere that coincide with the circumferences of circular maria, but that deep moonquakes are still puzzling in the framework of any theory.

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