The origin of the lunar surface |
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| Authors: | B. Steverding |
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| Affiliation: | Physical Sciences Directorate, U.S. Army Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, Ala., U.S.A. |
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| Abstract: | A mechanism is described how the lunar landscape could have originated by a chain reaction of volcanic eruptions. The mechanism consists of a sequence of three steps; surface solidification and fragmentation, gas formation and crack-wave interactions. A quantitative analysis is presented and it is shown that the volcanic chain reaction was most likely to occur around 10 million years after surface solidification. |
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