Gravity data coinciding with vestiges of downwellings from lunar mantle overturn (IMAGE)

University of Arizona

Gravity data coinciding with vestiges of downwellings from lunar mantle overturn

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Schematic illustration with a gravity gradient map (blue hexagonal pattern) of the lunar nearside and a cross-section showing two ilmenite-bearing cumulate downwellings from lunar mantle overturn.

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Adrien Broquet/University of Arizona & Audrey Lasbordes

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