Related Content
Search Google Scholar for:
More Information
Related Jobs from ScienceCareers
|
|
Science 4 September 1998:
Vol. 281. no. 5382, pp. 1493 - 1496
DOI: 10.1126/science.281.5382.1493
|
|
Reports
Lunar Fe and Ti Abundances: Comparison of Lunar Prospector and Clementine Data
R. C. Elphic,
*
D. J. Lawrence,
W. C. Feldman,
B. L. Barraclough,
S. Maurice,
A. B. Binder,
P. G. Lucey
The Lunar Prospector neutron spectrometer data correlate well with
iron and titanium abundances obtained through analysis of Clementine
spectral reflectance data. With the iron and titanium dependence
removed, the neutron spectrometer data also reveal regions with
enhanced amounts of gadolinium and samarium, incompatible rare earth
elements that are enriched in the final phases of magma crystallization. These regions are found mainly around the ramparts of
the Imbrium impact basin but not around the other basins, including the
much larger and deeper South Pole-Aitken basin. This result confirms
the compositional uniqueness of the surface and interior of the Imbrium
region.
R. C. Elphic, D. J. Lawrence, W. C. Feldman,
B. L. Barraclough, Space and Atmospheric Sciences, MS D466, Los
Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA. S. Maurice,
Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, 31400 Toulouse, France. A. B. Binder, Lunar Research Institute, Gilroy, CA 95020, USA. P. G. Lucey, Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, University of
Hawai'i, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA.
*
To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail:
relphic{at}lanl.gov
Read the Full Text
THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
- Development of the Moon.
- M. B. Duke, L. R. Gaddis, G. J. Taylor, and H. H. Schmitt (2006)
Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry
60, 597-655
| Full Text »
| PDF »
- Geology: from an Earth to a planetary science in the twentieth century.
- U. B. Marvin (2002)
Geological Society, London, Special Publications
192, 17-57
| Abstract »
| PDF »
- Flood Basalts, Basalt Floods or Topless Bushvelds? Lunar Petrogenesis Revisited.
- M. J. O'HARA (2000)
J. Petrology
41, 1545-1651
| Abstract »
| Full Text »
| PDF »
- Major Compositional Units of the Moon: Lunar Prospector Thermal and Fast Neutrons.
- W. C. Feldman, B. L. Barraclough, S. Maurice, R. C. Elphic, D. J. Lawrence, D. R. Thomsen, and A. B. Binder (1998)
Science
281, 1489-1493
| Abstract »
| Full Text »
|
|
