Prospects for Dating the South Pole-Aitken Basin through Impact-Melt Rock Samples

• Main Authors: Coker, R. F., Cohen, B. A., Petro, N. E.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Lunar and Planetary Science and Exploration; Aitken; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20160013272

Much of the present debate about the ages of the nearside basins arises because of the difficulty in understanding the relationship of recovered samples to their parent basin. The Apollo breccias are from basin ejecta formations, which are ballistically-emplaced distal deposits that have mixed prove...