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3D gravity inversion based on mixed-norm regularization in spherical coordinates with application to the lunar Moscoviense Basin Available to Purchase

Guangdong Zhao, Xuben Wang, Jianxin Liu, Bo Chen, Mikhail K. Kaban, Zhengwei Xu
Journal: Geophysics
Published: 12 April 2023
Geophysics (2023) 88 (3): G67–G78.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1190/geo2022-0285.1
... of the Moscoviense Basin. The inverted results indicate that the density structure with high-positive anomalies is principally distributed at depths ranging from 5 to 70 km, forming a giant asymmetrical high-density structure inclining from the southwest to the northeast. We may conclude that the Moscoviense Basin...
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(a) Free-air and (b) Bouguer gravity anomalies of the Moscoviense Basin. All corrections are computed on a spherical surface with a radius of 1748 km and with a spatial resolution of 0.25° × 0.25°. AA′, BB′, and CC′ are three cross sections to display the density distributions in depth which are shown in Figure 11.

(a) Free-air and (b) Bouguer gravity anomalies of the Moscoviense Basin. Al... Available to Purchase

Published: 12 April 2023
Figure 8. (a) Free-air and (b) Bouguer gravity anomalies of the Moscoviense Basin. All corrections are computed on a spherical surface with a radius of 1748 km and with a spatial resolution of 0.25° × 0.25°. AA′, BB′, and CC′ are three cross sections to display the density distributions in depth
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Topography map of the Moscoviense Basin. Its location is represented as a white square in the upper right corner of the global map.

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Published: 12 April 2023
Figure 7. Topography map of the Moscoviense Basin. Its location is represented as a white square in the upper right corner of the global map.
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Spinel-rich lithologies in the lunar highland crust: Linking lunar samples with crystallization experiments and remote sensing Available to Purchase

Juliane Gross, Peter J. Isaacson, Allan H. Treiman, Loan Le, Julia K. Gorman
Published: 01 October 2014
American Mineralogist (2014) 99 (10): 1849–1859.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2014-4780
... abundant olivine and pyroxene, was recognized in visible to near-infrared (VNIR) reflectance spectra by the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M 3 ) instrument on the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft at the Moscoviense basin. These outcrop-scale areas are inferred to contain 20–30% Mg-Al spinel. Possible explanations...
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Reflectance spectra of the AT-65785 experimental run products (1500 to 1150 °C, thick colored lines, dotted and solid) compared to M3 spectra of spinel-rich deposit detected at Moscoviense basin (thin dotted black, gray, light gray lines) relative to featureless soil (Pieters et al. 2011). (a) Reflectance spectra normalized to 1500 nm; (b) spectra normalized to the reflectance “shoulder” between 1000 and 2000 nm (i.e., 1625 nm for 1500/1450 °C experimental samples and 1420 nm for other experimental samples; 1250 nm for M3 data) to facilitate comparison of the 2 mm absorption intensity. * = reflectance spectra of spinel-rich area at Moscoviense basin relative to featureless FS soil.

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Published: 01 October 2014
Figure 7 Reflectance spectra of the AT-65785 experimental run products (1500 to 1150 °C, thick colored lines, dotted and solid) compared to M 3 spectra of spinel-rich deposit detected at Moscoviense basin (thin dotted black, gray, light gray lines) relative to featureless soil ( Pieters et al
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Example M3 spectra for three of the rock types exposed along the inner ring of Moscoviense basin as measured during two independent optical periods (OP1b and OP1a). Designations for areas 1, 2, and 4a are those used in Pieters et al. (2011). Mg-spinel occurs at 1 (green), low-Ca pyroxene at 2 (red), and olivine at 4a (purple). A spectrum from a crater in the mare basalt to the east (MareCr) is provided for comparison (maroon) and exhibits the signature of a more Fe- and Ca-rich clinopyroxene. Color-composite images for Moscoviense similar to Figure 3 for both optical periods can be found in Supplemental Figure 71.

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Published: 01 October 2014
Figure 7 Example M 3 spectra for three of the rock types exposed along the inner ring of Moscoviense basin as measured during two independent optical periods (OP1b and OP1a). Designations for areas 1, 2, and 4a are those used in Pieters et al. (2011) . Mg-spinel occurs at 1 (green), low-Ca
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Distribution of Mg-spinel across the Moon displayed with oversized symbols. White circles indicate areas that meet the spectroscopic diagnostic criteria discussed in Pieters et al. (2014); the white and black circle near the center is one pyroclastic ‘dark mantle’ region that also contains abundant spinel (but different composition). Triangles indicate Mg-spinel bearing central peaks identified by Sun et al. (2017) that meet the diagnostic criteria. Although exposures of Mg-spinel are found associated with SPA and Moscoviense basins on the farside, the majority are associated with nearside terrain.

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Published: 01 December 2023
contains abundant spinel (but different composition). Triangles indicate Mg-spinel bearing central peaks identified by Sun et al. (2017) that meet the diagnostic criteria. Although exposures of Mg-spinel are found associated with SPA and Moscoviense basins on the farside, the majority are associated
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The distribution of Mg-spinel across the Moon and constraints on crustal origin Available to Purchase

Carle M. Pieters, Kerri Donaldson Hanna, Leah Cheek, Deepak Dhingra, Tabb Prissel, Colin Jackson, Daniel Moriarty, Stephen Parman, Lawrence A. Taylor
Published: 01 October 2014
American Mineralogist (2014) 99 (10): 1893–1910.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2014-4776
...Figure 7 Example M 3 spectra for three of the rock types exposed along the inner ring of Moscoviense basin as measured during two independent optical periods (OP1b and OP1a). Designations for areas 1, 2, and 4a are those used in Pieters et al. (2011) . Mg-spinel occurs at 1 (green), low-Ca...
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Lunar mare volcanism: lateral heterogeneities in volcanic activity and relationship with crustal structure Available to Purchase

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Tomokatsu Morota, Yoshiaki Ishihara, Sho Sasaki, Sander Goossens, Koji Matsumoto, Hirotomo Noda, Hiroshi Araki, Hideo Hanada, Seiichi Tazawa, Fuyuhiko Kikuchi, Toshiaki Ishikawa, Seiitsu Tsuruta, Shunichi Kamata, Hisashi Otake, Junichi Haruyama, Makiko Ohtake
Book: Volcanism and Tectonism Across the Inner Solar System
Series: Geological Society, London, Special Publications
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Published: 01 January 2015
DOI: 10.1144/SP401.11
EISBN: 9781862396777
... et al. 2009 ). In addition, the farside Moscoviense Basin, whose predicted crustal thickness is close to zero ( Ishihara et al. 2009 ; Wieczorek et al. 2013 ), contains 3–10 times less mare basalt (in terms of volume) than the same-sized nearside Humorum Basin ( Morota et al. 2009 ). Thus...
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Abstract Lunar mare basalts are spatially unevenly distributed, and their abundances differ between the nearside and farside of the Moon. Although mare asymmetry has been attributed to thickness variations in the low-density anorthositic crust, the eruptive mechanism of lunar magma remains unknown. In this study, we investigate the relationship between mare distribution and crustal thickness using geological and geophysical data obtained by the SELENE (Kaguya) and the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory spacecraft, and quantitatively re-evaluate the influence of the anorthositic crust on magma eruption. We identify a lateral heterogeneity in the upper limit of crustal thickness that allows magma extrusion to the surface. In the Procellarum KREEP Terrane, where the surface abundances of heat-producing elements are extremely high, magmas can erupt in regions of crustal thickness below about 30 km. In contrast, magma eruptions are limited to regions of crustal thickness below about 20 km in other nearside regions, around 10 km in the South Pole–Aitken Basin and approximately 5 km in the farside Felspathic Highland Terrane. Such heterogeneity may result from lateral variations in magma production in the lunar mantle and/or crustal density.

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This issue of Geophysics Available to Purchase

Journal: Geophysics
Published: 16 May 2023
Geophysics (2023) 88 (3): 1MJ–6MJ.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1190/geo2023-0501-tiogeo.1
... in an elegant interactive way based on numerical optimization. Zhao et al. propose a high-resolution 3D gravity inversion method in spherical coordinates based on L1 and L2 mixed norm, and it is applied to the Moscoviense Basin. Synthetic examples show the proposed method can recover more compact...
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Origin of the lunar highlands Mg-suite: An integrated petrology, geochemistry, chronology, and remote sensing perspective Available to Purchase

Charles K. Shearer, Stephen M. Elardo, Noah E. Petro, Lars E. Borg, Francis M. McCubbin
Published: 01 January 2015
American Mineralogist (2015) 100 (1): 294–325.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2015-4817
... on the rim of the Moscoviense Basin ( Fig. 16 ). The small, distinct exposures of low-Ca pyroxene, olivine, and Mg-spinel rich exposures ( Pieters et al. 2011 ) are slightly more Fe-rich than the exposures described by Klima et al. (2011b) . Both of these Mg-spinels occur in areas that expose deep-seated...
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The Lunar Cratering Chronology Available to Purchase

H. Hiesinger, C.H. van der Bogert, G. Michael, N. Schmedemann, W. Iqbal, S.J. Robbins, B. Ivanov, J.-P. Williams, M. Zanetti, J. Plescia, L. R. Ostrach, J.W. Head, III
Published: 01 December 2023
Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry (2023) 89 (1): 401–451.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2138/rmg.2023.89.10
... ) Cryptomare magmatism 4.35 Gyr ago recorded in lunar meteorite Kalahari 009 . Nature 450 : 849 – 852 Thaisen KG , Head JW , Taylor LA , Kramer GY , Isaacson P , Nettles J , Petro N , Pieters CM ( 2011 ) Geology of the Moscoviense Basin . J Geophys Res...
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The history of the core dynamos of Mars and the Moon inferred from their crustal magnetization: a brief review Available to Purchase

Jafar Arkani-Hamed
Published: 14 November 2018
Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences (2019) 56 (9): 917–931.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2018-0068
... Nectarian age basins (Crisium, Mendel–Rydberg, Bailly, Humboldtianum, and Moscoviense) show magnetic anomalies near their centers (e.g., Halekas et al. 2003 ). The anomalies are related to the thermoremanent magnetization of the impact melt rocks acquired during the Nectarian period between the formation...
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ILMENITE AS A DIAMOND INDICATOR MINERAL IN THE SIBERIAN CRATON: A TOOL TO PREDICT DIAMOND POTENTIAL Available to Purchase

Laura Carmody, Lawrence A. Taylor, Kevin G. Thaisen, Nikolay Tychkov, Robert J. Bodnar, Nikolay V. Sobolev, Lyudmila N. Pokhilenko, Nikolay P. Pokhilenko
Journal: Economic Geology
Published: 01 May 2014
Economic Geology (2014) 109 (3): 775–783.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2113/econgeo.109.3.775
... from Yakutia, Russia : American Mineralogist , v. 88 , p. 912 – 920 . Thaisen K.G. , 2012 , From the mantle to the moon: Studies of kimberlitic ilmenites, meteorite fusion-crusts, and the Moscoviense basin on the moon : Unpublished PhD thesis , Knoxville , University of Tennessee...
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The mafic component of the lunar crust: Constraints on the crustal abundance of mantle and intrusive rock, and the mineralogy of lunar anorthosites Available to Purchase

Sarah T. Crites, Paul G. Lucey, G. Jeffrey Taylor
Published: 01 August 2015
American Mineralogist (2015) 100 (8-9): 1708–1716.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2015-4872
... highlands: mafic (15 vol% mafic minerals) anorthosites, post-magma ocean igneous activity, and mafic basin ejecta. Mixing models that feature pure anorthosites like the purest anorthosite (PAN) described by Ohtake et al. (2009) and Pieters et al. (2009) are most compatible with the data. They allow us...
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Impact History of the Moon Available to Purchase

Barbara A. Cohen, Carolyn H. van der Bogert, William F. Bottke, Natalie M. Curran, Caleb I. Fassett, Harald Hiesinger, Katherine H. Joy, Sara Mazrouei, Alexander Nemchin, Gregory A. Neumann, Marc D. Norman, Nicolle E. B. Zellner
Published: 01 December 2023
Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry (2023) 89 (1): 373–400.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2138/rmg.2023.89.09
... ) Anomalous Moscoviense basin: Single oblique impact or double impact origin? Geophys Res Lett 38 : L03021 James OB ( 1981 ) Petrologic and age relations of the Apollo 16 rocks: Implications for subsurface geology and the age of the Nectaris basin . Proc Lunar Planet Sci Conf 12 : 209...
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Lunar Meteorites Available to Purchase

Katherine H. Joy, Juliane Gross, Randy L. Korotev, Ryan A. Zeigler, Francis M. McCubbin, Joshua F. Snape, Natalie M. Curran, John F. Pernet-Fisher, Tomoko Arai
Published: 01 December 2023
Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry (2023) 89 (1): 509–562.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2138/rmg.2023.89.12
... of the Moon. For example, if the case could be made for identifying a basaltic meteorite source in a farside lava field like Mare Moscoviense or Tsiolkovskiy crater, or outcropping within the South Pole–Aitken basin, this connection could facilitate understanding of drivers of mantle melting between the near...
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Lunar Magnetism Available to Purchase

Mark A. Wieczorek, Benjamin P. Weiss, Doris Breuer, David Cébron, Mike Fuller, Ian Garrick-Bethell, Jérôme Gattacceca, Jasper S. Halekas, Douglas J. Hemingway, Lon L. Hood, Matthieu Laneuville, Francis Nimmo, Rona Oran, Michael E. Purucker, Tina Rückriemen, Krista M. Soderlund, Sonia M. Tikoo
Published: 01 December 2023
Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry (2023) 89 (1): 207–241.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2138/rmg.2023.89.05
... that a dynamo operated during the first 100 million years following crust formation and magnetization of some impact basins implies that the dynamo continued into the Nectarian period. Paleomagnetic analyses of Apollo samples provide evidence for dynamo activity from about 4.25 billion years ago (Ga) until...
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VNIR spectral variability of the igneous stratified Stillwater Complex: A tool to map lunar highlands Available to Purchase

Cristian Carli, Giovanni Serventi, Maria Sgavetti
Published: 01 October 2014
American Mineralogist (2014) 99 (10): 1834–1848.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2014-4808
... ( Matsunaga et al. 2008 ; Ohtake et al. 2009 ; Cheek et al. 2011 ; Pieters et al. 2011 ; Kramer et al. 2013 ). M 3 data also revealed distinctive rock-types along the inner basin ring in the Moscoviense ( Pieters et al. 2011 ), designated as “OOS” and dominated by high concentrations of orthopyroxene...
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Tectonics of the Moon Available to Purchase

Amanda L. Nahm, Thomas R. Watters, Catherine L. Johnson, Maria E. Banks, Carolyn H. van der Bogert, Renee C. Weber, Jeffrey C. Andrews-Hanna
Published: 01 December 2023
Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry (2023) 89 (1): 691–727.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2138/rmg.2023.89.16
... that the tectonics of the Moon were largely just a consequence of the evolution of the near side mare basins has been changed dramatically. The discovery of a vast population of small-scale lobate thrust fault scarps in images returned by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) has provided evidence...
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