Lunar seismicity, structure, and tectonics

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Mar 1977

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1977rspta.285..451l&link_type=abstract

(Royal Society, Discussion on the Moon - A New Appraisal from Space Missions and Laboratory Analyses, London, England, June 9-12

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Lunar Geology, Planetary Structure, Seismology, Selenology, Tectonics, Lunar Core, Lunar Crust, Lunar Mantle, Lunar Seismographs, Lunar Surface, Moonquakes, Tides

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Seismic data is used to develop a lunar model consisting of five zones. These include a 50-60 km thick crust characterized by seismic velocities appropriate to plagioclase rich materials, the 250 km thick upper mantle characterized by seismic velocities consistent with an olivine-pyroxene composition, the 500 km thick middle mantle characterized by a high Poisson ratio, the lower mantle characterized by high shear wave attenuation, and a core of radius between 170 and 360 km characterized by a greatly reduced compressional wave velocity.

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