Abstract
In the preceding two chapters we gave a descriptive survey of the principal types of formations encountered on the lunar surface, as well as a brief account of the processes by which such individual formations could have originated. The aim of the present chapter will be to consider now the collective aspects of the observed surface features, their distribution and density over different types of lunar ground; and to draw some conclusions from this evidence which may throw light on the “partition function” of different processes considered in the preceding chapter, or on the conditions prevailing in interplanetary space.
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For recent investigations of the particular contents of space, and the mass-distribution of solid particles at a distance of one astronomical unit from the Sun, cf., Piotrowski (1953), Öpik (1956, 1958), Urey (1960), Brown (1960), Hawkins (1960, 1963, 1964) or Hartmann (1965).
For statistical studies of crater distribution in different parts of the lunar surface cf., Arthur (1954), Öpik (1960), Kreiter (1960), McGillem and Miller (1962), Dodd, Salisbury and Smalley (1963), Palm and Strom (1963), Baldwin (1964, 1965), Marcus (1964, 1965), Ronca (1965) et al. The latest contribution to such studies by Fielder (1965) contains conclusions biased in favour of lunar volcanism which, as was shown by Marcus (1966), are unwarranted by the data on which they are based.
Fundamental papers on absolute dating of lunar stratigraphy, based on a combination of the relevant lunar and interplanetary data, are those by Shoemaker, Hackman and Eggleton (1961), Shoemaker (1962, pp. 347–348), Shoemaker and Hackman (1962) or Eggleton and Marshall (1963).
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Kopal, Z. (1966). Lunar Surface as an Impact Counter, and its Stratigraphy. In: An Introduction to the Study of the Moon. Astrophysics and Space Science Library. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-6320-2_18
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