Phreatomagmatic Activity on the Moon: Possibility of Pseudocraters at Mare Frigoris

• Main Author: Garcia, Jose Humberto
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: ScholarWorks@UTEP 2012
• Subjects: Image analysis; Mare Frigoris; Moon; numerical modeling; Phreatomagmatic; Pseudocrater; Geology; Other Astrophysics and Astronomy; The Sun and the Solar System; Lola; Iceland
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.utep.edu/open_etd/2091; https://scholarworks.utep.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3090&context=open_etd

The discovery of water on the Moon raises the possibility that lava-water, or phreatomagmatic, interactions have occurred on the lunar surface in the past. Such interactions may have formed pseudocraters, crater-like landforms that result from steam explosions that occur when lava flows come in cont...