A lunar terrane is a major geologic province on the Moon. Three terranes have been identified on the Moon: the Procellarum KREEP Terrane, the Feldspathic...

Solar System portal Lunar resources Lunar terrane Selenography Sodium tail of the Moon Heiken; Vanniman & French (1991). Lunar Sourcebook. Cambridge...

principal concern of selenographists was the mapping and naming of the lunar terrane 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.....

the Moon have synchronized the Moon's orbital period (lunar month) with its rotation period (lunar day) at 29.5 Earth days, causing the same side of the...

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...

Yutu (Chinese: 玉兔; pinyin: Yùtù; lit. 'Jade Rabbit') was a robotic lunar rover that formed part of the Chinese Chang'e 3 mission to the Moon. It was launched...

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...

Larry A.; Korotev, Randy L.; Wieczorek, Mark L. (2000). "Major lunar crustal terranes" (PDF). Journal of Geophysical Research. 105 (E2): 4197–4216. Bibcode:2000JGR...

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...

superior provinces), include the North Superior Superterrane and Wawa Terrane, among others (shown in the table below). Studies on the formation of the...

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...

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...

Korotev, Randy L.; Wieczorek, Mark A. (25 February 2000). "Major lunar crustal terranes: Surface expressions and crust-mantle origins". Journal of Geophysical...

(1988). "Mineralogy and Incipient Pedogenesis of Entisols in Anorthosite Terrane of the San Gabriel Mountains, California". Soil Science Society of America...

proposed 3 billion-year-old (3 Ga) impact structure located in the Akia terrane of the North Atlantic Craton, centred about 55 km (34 mi) south-east of...

with the radiometric ages of the oldest-known terrestrial material and lunar samples. Following the development of radiometric age-dating in the early...

LaBerge, Gene L. (1988). "Exploration drill cores in the Wisconsin magmatic terrane". Open-File Report. doi:10.3133/ofr88536. ISSN 2331-1258. "Locations"....

Granite-Greenstone Terrane. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 396, 235-251. Plescia, J., & Cintala, M. (2012). Impact melt in small lunar highland craters...

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...

formed at a convergent plate margin through collision and accretion of terranes. This hypothesis suggests that the magnetic lineations on Mars are analogous...

northeastern Procellarum KREEP Terrane (an area which has high abundances of KREEP, a geochemical component of some lunar rocks). In the center of the elevated...

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...

Larry A.; Korotev, Randy L.; Wieczorek, Mark A. (2000). "Major lunar crustal terranes: Surface expressions and crust-mantle origins". Journal of Geophysical...

souterrain, subterrane, subterranean, terrace, terracotta, terrain, terran, terrane, terraqueous, terrarium, terrene, terreplein, terrestrial, terricolous...

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...

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...

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...