Cratering History and Lunar Chronology

By D. Stöffler, G. Ryder, B. Ivanov, N. Artemieva, M. Cintala, R. Grieve. 2006

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science

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Lunar impact basins: Stratigraphy, sequence and ages from superposed impact crater populations measured from Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) data (2012, background): “The catalog of lunar craters reported on by Head et al. [2010] and Kadish et al. [2011] is available online at http://www.planetary.brown.edu/ html_pages/LOLAcraters.html and detailed count data and areas are presented in the auxiliary material.1”
Geologic history of Mars (2010, background): “, 1974; Solomon andHead, 2007) or a steady decline after accretion (Stöffler et al., 2006).”
Back to the Moon: The scientific rationale for resuming lunar surface exploration (2012, methodology): “…uncertainty over whether the lunar cratering rate has declined monotonically since the formation of the Moon, or whether there was a bombardment ‘cataclysm’ between about 3.8 and 4.0 billion years ago characterised by an unusually high rate of impacts (Hartmann et al., 2000; Stöffler et al., 2006).”
How old are young lunar craters (2012, background): “This is not a trivial task and led to several chronologies [e.g., Neukum, 1983; BVSP, 1981; Neukum and Ivanov, 1994; Stöffler and Ryder, 2001; Stöffler et al., 2006, and references therein], which all agree to within a factor of 2–3 with each other [Neukum and Ivanov, 1994].”
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) Instrument Overview (2010, background): “…precision crater counts of the lunar surface are especially important because the Moon is the only planetary body for which relative ages from crater counts can be correlated with absolute dating of rock samples collected by trained field observers (Stoffler et al. 2006, and references therein).”