Standing Waves on the Moon

Authors

• Lewis T. Chadderton, Science Center, North American Rockwell Corporation, Thousand Oaks, California
• Frans G. Krajenbrink, Science Center, North American Rockwell Corporation, Thousand Oaks, California
• Robert Katz, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
• Arcadio Poveda, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

July 1969

Comments

Published in Nature, Vol. 223, no. 5203 (July 19, 1969), pp. 259-263. Copyright © 1969 Nature Publishing Group. Used by permission. Submitted February 17, 1969; revised April 17,1969.

Abstract

The existence of local annular and radial structures in the environment of lunar craters, and of a global selenographic tectonic pattern, is ascribed in part to standing “moonquakes” established after impact or eruption.