Talk:Geology of the Moon

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:The goals of WikiProject Moon are to improve the quality of existing articles related to The Moon, to create articles to cover a broader range of lunar topics, and to categorize and link them in appropriate ways.  The result of this work should be articles that are accessible to the lay reader and yet also useful to the professional working in the field. Some articles will be of interest to grade-school students, others only to advanced graduate students and post-docs: all such communities should be served. 
Cheers! Lunokhod 14:55, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: WikiProject Moon 

message: I've translated the following text:
:Otro tipo de depósito asociado con los mares, aunque también cubre a las áreas de las tierras altas, son los depósitos de manto oscuro. Estos depósitos no pueden ser vistos a simple vista sino con la ayuda de telescopios o la cercanía de naves espaciales. Antes de las misiones Apollo, los científicos creían que se trataba de depósitos producidos por erupciones piroclásticas. Algunos depósitos parecen estar asociados con conos de cenizas oscuros y anchos reforzando la idea de las erupciones piroclásticas, posteriormente confirmadas por el hallazgo de perlas de vidrio como las que se encuentran en las erupciones piroclásticas de la Tierra.
Does anyone know what "manto oscuro" is? Titoxd(?!?) 23:13, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Maria 

message: I'm translating the diagram at  but as I'm nowhere near fluent in Spanish there are a couple of words I'm unsure of:
*fundido
*lecho
Can anybody help me out? --David Wahler (talk) 15:44, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Diagram translation 

message: I've finished doing the main translation of the article, and all that's left now is translating the images and doing general copyediting. Thanks to all of those who helped. Titoxd(?!?) 22:15, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translation done 

message: Sorry I’m always late. Here you have some of the geological terms related to the lunar geology. There are many others, so if there are other terms to be translated don’t hesitate to ask me:
*Aglutinado: agglutinate.
*Anortosita: anorthosite.
*Brecha: breccia.
*Cadena de cráteres: crater chain.
*Depósito de manto oscuro: dark mantle deposit (this refers to the dark color caused by the presence of basalt-rich lavas).
*Deyecto: ejecta.
*Altiplanicie: highland.
*Ilmenita: ilmenite.
*KREEP: KREEP (K for potassium, Rare Earth Elements and P for phosphorus).
*Océano magmático / océano de magma: magma ocean.
*Mar basáltico / mar de basalto: mare basalt. Mare (sea) and Maria (plural).
*Lunamoto: Moonquake.
*Norita: norite.
*Olivino: olivine.
*Pahoehoe: Pahoehoe (basaltic lava with a smooth, billowy, or ropy surface).
*Feldespato plagioclasa: plagioclase feldspar.
*Rayo: ray (streak of material blasted out and away from an impact crater.
*Rille: rille (long channels crossing the surface of maria; probably formed either as an open channel in a lava flow, or as an underground tube carrying hot lava which collapsed as the lava flowed out).
*Troctolito: troctolite.
*Vesícula: vesicle (bubble-shaped cavity in a volcanic rock formed by expanding gases).
*Meteorización: weathering.
Diagrams and images: I will replace the existing diagrams by better drawings and will license all images properly later this week. For the time being I can say that all NASA images I used there are PD. I’ve got to rush now…. Regards, Luis María Benítez 11:55, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Geologic terms

message: "The amount of wear experienced by a crater was another clue to its age, as also is its diameter." [Emphasis added]  Could someone explain how the size of a crater aids in its age determination? Dan Watts 13:46, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: In almost every case on the Moon, smaller craters overlap larger craters, and not vice versa. The historical trend has been toward smaller impacts as the loose material is steadily accreted by larger bodies or is ejected from the solar system. — RJH (talk) 18:22, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Impact Cratering 

message: :"The mass of the moon is sufficient to eliminate any voids within the interior, so it is believed to be composed of solid rock throughout."
I believe this statement is now only partially correct. James Williams of JPL was able to demonstrate that the Moon likely has a small molten liquid core. — RJH (talk) 18:13, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The context indicates that the meaning is that there are not huge empty spaces far beneath the surface, that the rock is forced together to fill voids.  Similarly, if there is a liquid core it should not have voids in it.  The core is described in parts of the article other than this sentence.  (SEWilco 19:45, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Clearly, hence the word "partially". :-) — RJH (talk) 17:52, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Molten liquid core 

message: * AGAINST. I instead suggest deletion of Lunar surface, as this page doesn't seem to have any purpose. I do not think that it would be a good idea to have a redirect from Lunar surface to Geology of the Moon, as the two are not that closely related. It would probably make more sence to redirect to regolith, lunar soil, or something else. Alternatively, the stub of lunar surface could be developped in the lines of geotechnics. Lunokhod 09:19, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge of Lunar surface with Geology of the Moon 

message: FYI, I've added a [color image] to the article.  Please let me know what you think.
--KNHaw (talk) 00:47, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  False Color Image 

message: I have searched for some info on the grain sizes in the lunar regolith, without finding anything. I know lunar landing hoaxists claim that it is not possible to get footprints like this http://gfx.dagbladet.no/pub/artikkel/5/51/515/515095/GPNX2001X000014X1X_1192451203_1192451218.jpg in dry sand, but i suppose that is possible because the regolith is actually much finer than sand. I think the article should say somehting about that. Gwissi  —Preceding comment was added at 16:13, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grain size of the lunar regolith 

message: Lunar surface into Geology of the Moon#Lunar landscape. Everything that would be within the scope of the aforementioned article would fall into the latter section of this article. The Lunar surface article, in addition, has minimal info and no sources. I suggest a mere redirect, as there's really nothing to merge. Tyrol5  [Talk] 01:43, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, and will be bold and do it. Lunar surface is decrepit. Chris857 (talk) 02:11, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merger of [[Lunar surface]] into [[Geology of the Moon#Lunar landscape]] (Dec. 2010) 

message: Anyone able to create/update a section on Lunar Volcanism
based on the discovery of 'dark side' silicic volcanoes
Or is there an article already covering that ? EdwardLane (talk) 09:39, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Volcanism 

message: I would like to see more about the "geographic" features of the far side of the moon. Oddly, there is darn little on the Wikipedia about this. The discussion of the South Pole–Aitken basin seems to be just about it.Paul, in Saudi (talk) 04:01, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Far side of the moon]]

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message: Se for example https://www.usgs.gov/news/usgs-releases-first-ever-comprehensive-geologic-map-moon
and good summary at https://astrogeology.usgs.gov/search/map/Moon/Geology/Unified_Geologic_Map_of_the_Moon_GIS
The good image :File:Unified Geologic Map of The Moon 200dpi.jpg is about it, but there are nothing explaining.
Krauss (talk) 18:36, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please add explanation of the 2020's unified map 

message: No 76.121.121.92 (talk) 14:12, 4 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi, this is the talk page for the article on the geology of the Moon. Did you perhaps mean to ask a question or start a discussion over at Talk:Supermassive black hole? TheTechnician27 (Talk page) 14:22, 4 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Supermassive black holes