NEEP602 Course Notes (Fall 1996)
Resources from Space

TABLE 4. Changes to major lunar features: end of the cratered highlands stage

1. Upper 25 km of crust: intensely brecciated and regionally homogenized by large impacts with significant enhancement of thermal insulation properties.

a. A few extremely large impacts excavated significant thicknesses of the brecciated upper crust.

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