Major lunar crustal terranes: Surface expressions and crust-mantle origins

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets
• Main Authors: Jolliff, Bradley, Gillis, Jeffrey, Haskin, Larry, Korotev, Randy, Wieczorek, Mark
• Other Authors: Washington University in Saint Louis (WUSTL)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2000
• Subjects: [SDU.STU.PL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Planetology; Aitken; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02458514; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02458514/document; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02458514/file/Jolliff%20et%20al,%202000.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1029/1999JE001103

International audience In light of global remotely sensed data, the igneous crust of the Moon can no longer be viewed as a simple, globally stratified cumulus structure, composed of a flotation upper crust of anorthosite underlain by progressively more mafic rocks and a residual‐melt (KREEP) sandwic...