A Serenitatis origin for the Imbrian grooves and South Pole-Aitken thorium anomaly

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets
• Main Authors: Wieczorek, Mark, Zuber, Maria
• Other Authors: Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences MIT, Cambridge (EAPS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2001
• 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-02458520; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02458520/document; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02458520/file/Wieczorek%20and%20Zuber,%202001a.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1029/2000JE001384

International audience The northwest corner of the Moon's South Pole‐Aitken (SPA) basin contains a high abundance of thorium and a unique Imbrian aged geomorphologic unit that consists of “grooves and mounds” (referred to here as the Imbrian grooves). Because the location of these features are...