The Origin of Lunar Mascon Basins, Part Ii. Cooling and Isostatic Adjustment
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Andrew M. Freed, David M. Blair, Brandon C. Johnson, H. J. Melosh, Jeffrey C. Andrews-Hanna, Gregory A. Neumann, Roger J. Phillips, David E. Smith, Sean C. Solomon, Mark A. Wieczorek, Maria T. Zuber; Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Purdue University, 550 Stadium Mall Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA ([email protected]); Department of Physics, Purdue University, 525 Northwestern Avenue, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA; Department of Geophysics, Colorado School of Mines, 1500 Illinois St., Golden, CO 80401-1887, USA; Solar System Exploration Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA; Planetary Science Directorate, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO 80302, USA; Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA; Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC 20015, USA; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY 10964, USA; Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Univ. Paris Diderot, 75205 Paris Cedex 13, France.
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