Lunar Mare Basaltic Volcanism : Volcanic Features and Emplacement Processes

Head, James W. and Wilson, Lionel and Hiesinger, Harald and van der Bogert, Carolyn and Chen, Yuan and Dickson, James L. and Gaddis, Lisa R. and Haruyama, Junichi and Jawin, Erica R. and Jozwiak, Lauren M. and Li, Chunlai and Liu, Jianzhong and Morota, Tomokatsu and Needham, Debra H. and Ostrach, Lillian R. and Pieters, Carle M. and Prissel, Tabb C. and Qian, Yuqi and Qiao, Le and Rutherford, Malcolm R. and Scott, David R. and Whitten, Jennifer L. and Xiao, Long and Zhang, Feng and Ziyuan, Ouyang (2023) Lunar Mare Basaltic Volcanism : Volcanic Features and Emplacement Processes. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 89 (1). pp. 453-507. ISSN 1529-6466

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Abstract

Volcanism is a fundamental process in the geological evolution of the Moon, providing clues to the composition and structure of the mantle, the location and duration of interior melting, the nature of convection and lunar thermal evolution. Progress in understanding volcanism has been remarkable in the short 60-year span of the Space Age. Before Sputnik 1 in 1957, the lunar farside was unknown, the origin of the dark lunar maria was debated (sedimentary or volcanic), and significant controversy surrounded the question of how the multitude of craters on the surface formed.