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

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.