Second Conference on the Lunar Highlands Crust : July 13-5, 2012, Bozeman, Montana

Abstract

Unimagined new data have become available, notably in orbital remote sensing of mineralogy, chemistry, topography, and gravity; geochronology; and geochemistry, especially isotopic constraints and the abundances and natures of lunar volatiles. These new data are paralleled by new concepts of solar system science, including the importance and timing of impact events (including the one that formed the Moon) and the nature of the early solar system disk and its dynamical instabilities. In light of these advances in the last 34 years, the time seems right for a synoptic reexamination of the lunar highlands crust.National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Universities Space Research Association, Lunar and Planetary Institute, NASA Lunar Science Institute, The Meteoritical Societysponsors National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Universities Space Research Association, Lunar and Planetary Institute, NASA Lunar Science Institute, The Meteoritical Society ; converers Allan Treiman, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Charles Shearer (LEAG), University of New Mexico, Meenakshi Wadhwa (CAPTEM), Arizona State University.PARTIAL CONTENTS: Lunar Highland Analog Rocks in Southern Peninsular India / S. Arivazhagan and S. Anbazhagan -- The Effect of Initial Compensation State on Retention of Superisostasy in Lunar Impact Basins / J. A. Balcerski, S. A. Hauck, and A. J. Dombard -- Chronologic Confusion in the Lunar Highlands / L. E. Borg, A. M. Gaffney, and C. K. Shearer -- Studying Spectral Variability of an Igneous Stratified Complex as a Tool to Map Lunar Highlands / C. Carli, M. Sgavetti, F. Capaccioni, and G. Serventi -- The Distribution and Mineralogy of Anorthosite in the Orientale Basin: New Perspectives from M3 Data / L. C. Cheek, K. L. Donaldson Hanna, C. M. Pieters, J. W. Head, and J. L. Whitten -- Modal Analyses of Apollo Soils by X-Ray Diffraction and Microscopic Spectral Imaging / S. T. Crites, G. J. Taylor, L. M. V. Martel, P. G. Lucey, and D. F. Blake -- Compositional Diversity of Crystalline Plagioclase in the Lunar Highlands / K. L. Donaldson Hanna, C. M. Pieters, B. T. Greenhagen, and L. C. Cheeks -- Reopening a Can of Wormy Intergrowths: A New Look at Chromite Symplectites in Mg-Suite Troctolite 76535 / S. M. Elardo, F. M. McCubbin, and C. K. Shearer -- Lunar Feldspathic Meteorites: Constraints on the Geology of the Lunar Farside Highlands, and the Origin of the Lunar Crust / J. Gross, A. H. Treiman, and C. N. Mercer