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Science 6 April 1973:
Vol. 180. no. 4081, pp. 68 - 71
DOI: 10.1126/science.180.4081.68
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Lunar Cinder Cones

Thomas R. McGetchin 1 and James W. Head 2

1 Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139
2 Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912

Data on terrestrial eruptions of pyroclastic material and ballistic considerations suggest that in the lunar environment (vacuum and reduced gravity) low-rimmed pyroclastic rings are formed rather than the high-rimmed cinder cones so abundant on the earth. Dark blanketing deposits in the Taurus-Littrow region (Apollo 17 landing area) are interpreted as being at least partly composed of lunar counterparts of terrestrial cinder cones.


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