Lunar terrane

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The Moon is composed of two major geologic provinces that have a unique origin, composition, and thermal evolution. The Procellarum KREEP Terrane is a small province on the near side of the Moon that has high abundances of KREEP. The felspathic highlands terrane, in contrast is composed predominantly of ancient anorthositic materials. A third terrane, the South Pole-Aitken Terrane, may simply represent deep crustal materials of the feldspathic highlands terrane.

[edit] References

• Bradley Jolliff, Jeffrey Gillis, Larry Haskin, Randy Korotev, and Mark Wieczorek (2000). "Major lunar crustal terranes". J. Geophys. Res.: 4197-4216.
• G. Jeffrey Taylor (August 31, 2000). A New Moon for the Twenty-First Century.