Geologic map of the Moon, with general features colored in by age, except in the case of maria (in blue), KREEP (red) and other special features. Oldest to youngest: Aitkenian (pink), Nectarian (brown), Imbrian (greens/turquoise), Eratosthenian (light orange) and Copernican (yellow).Thorium concentrations on the Moon. The large area of high concentration on the Near Side (left) corresponds to the Procellarum KREEP Terrane, and the smaller area on the Far Side (right) to the South Pole–Aitken Terrane. The large purple area to the north of this includes the Felspathic Highlands Terrane, which is not reflected in thorium concentrations.
A lunar terrane is a major geological province on the Moon. Three terranes have been identified on the Moon: the Procellarum KREEP Terrane, the Feldspathic Highlands Terrane, and the South Pole–Aitken Terrane.[1] Each terrane has a unique origin, composition, and thermal evolution.[2]
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^Taylor, G. Jeffrey (2000-08-31). "PSRD: New ideas on the nature of the Moon". www.psrd.hawaii.edu. Retrieved 2021-02-22.
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principal concern of selenographists was the mapping and naming of the lunarterrane identifying maria, craters, mountain ranges, and other various features...
Gillis; Larry Haskin; Randy Korotev; Mark Wieczorek (2000). "Major lunar crustal terranes" (PDF). J. Geophys. Res. 105 (E2): 4197–4216. Bibcode:2000JGR.....
geologic province that is now known as the Procellarum KREEP Terrane. Quickly after the lunar crust formed, or even as it was forming, different types of...
same side of the Moon to always face Earth. Because of this, the lunar day and the lunar month are the same length, at 29.5 Earth days. The Moon's gravitational...
Larry A.; Korotev, Randy L.; Wieczorek, Mark L. (2000). "Major lunar crustal terranes" (PDF). Journal of Geophysical Research. 105 (E2): 4197–4216. Bibcode:2000JGR...
and the Mare Imbrium. This is a unique lunar geological province that is now known as the Procellarum KREEP Terrane. Basins far from this province that dug...
The Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB), or lunar cataclysm, is a hypothesized astronomical event thought to have occurred approximately 4.1 to 3.8 billion years...
metamorphosed sandstone conglomerate in the Jack Hills of the Narryer Gneiss Terrane of Western Australia. The 4.404 ±0.008 Ga zircon is a slight outlier, with...
superior provinces), include the North Superior Superterrane and Wawa Terrane, among others (shown in the table below). Studies on the formation of the...
Retrieved 13 March 2015. Xiao, Long (13 March 2015). "A young multilayered terrane of the northern Mare Imbrium revealed by Chang'E-3 mission". Science. 347...
(1988). "Mineralogy and Incipient Pedogenesis of Entisols in Anorthosite Terrane of the San Gabriel Mountains, California". Soil Science Society of America...
with the radiometric ages of the oldest-known terrestrial material and lunar samples. Following the development of radiometric age-dating in the early...
Heide-Jørgensen, M. Danišík (2018). "Mesoarchean exhumation of the Akia terrane and a common Neoarchean tectonothermal history for West Greenland". Precambrian...
"genesis of life" for exceptional preservation of fossils. Narryer Gneiss Terrane stabilizes: these gneisses become the "bedrock" for the formation of the...
began to form in the Proterozoic at the western margin of North America. Terranes accreted to the continent as a marine environment dominated the area through...
early Precambrian cover sequences. Kaapvaal's Barberton granite-greenstone terrane and Pilbara's eastern block show evidence of four large meteorite impacts...
upper part of the crust on the island is primarily made up of a series of terranes, mostly old island arcs which have been forced together by the collision...
formed at a convergent plate margin through collision and accretion of terranes. This hypothesis suggests that the magnetic lineations on Mars are analogous...
types of rock similar in composition to granite (hence such terranes are called TTG-terranes). TTG-complexes are seen as the relicts of the first continental...
divided into two series/epochs (Early and Late) were defined in the latest Lunar geologic time scale. The Moon is unique in the Solar System in that it is...
Larry A.; Korotev, Randy L.; Wieczorek, Mark A. (2000). "Major lunar crustal terranes: Surface expressions and crust-mantle origins". Journal of Geophysical...
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