Lunar impact basins: Stratigraphy, sequence and ages from superposed impact crater populations measured from Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) data

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets
• Main Authors: Fassett, Caleb I., Head, James W., Kadish, S. J., Mazarico, Erwan Matias, Neumann, Gregory A., Smith, David Edmund, Zuber, Maria
• Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: South Pole; Aitken; Lola; South pole
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/85892

Impact basin formation is a fundamental process in the evolution of the Moon and records the history of impactors in the early solar system. In order to assess the stratigraphy, sequence, and ages of impact basins and the impactor population as a function of time, we have used topography from the Lu...