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    {
        "id": "authors:10wre-ztz93",
        "collection": "authors",
        "collection_id": "10wre-ztz93",
        "cite_using_url": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/10wre-ztz93",
        "type": "book_section",
        "title": "Interpretation of Lunar Craters",
        "book_title": "Physics and Astronomy of the Moon",
        "author": [
            {
                "family_name": "Shoemaker",
                "given_name": "Eugene M.",
                "clpid": "Shoemaker-E-M"
            }
        ],
        "abstract": "<p>The dominant surface features of the Moon are approximately circular depressions, which may be designated by the general term crater. Employed in this way, the word crater is used in its original sense-a cup-shaped topographic feature-after the Greek root <span>&kappa;</span><span>&rho;</span><span>&alpha;</span><span>&tau;<span>\u03f5&rho;</span></span> (cup or bowl). Solution of the origin of the lunar craters is fundamental<br>to the unravelling of the history of the Moon and may shed much light&nbsp;on the history of the terrestrial planets as well.</p>\n<p>Most geological and probably most selenological processes are too complex to be safely deduced from first principles. On the other hand, we may reasonably expect the same physical laws to apply on the Moon as on Earth, and we may also expect the rocks of the Moon to share some of the same range of chemical and physical properties as the rocks of the Earth. Undoubtedly there are differences- probably critical differences- in the physical, chemical, and historical setting of the surface of the Earth and Moon, and, indeed, there are striking differences in their topography. But if the problem is approached by analogy, attention may be focused on those features which are similar or the same in two different environments; the closer the comparison that can be made, the stronger is the argument.</p>",
        "doi": "10.1016/B978-1-4832-3240-9.50012-2",
        "isbn": "978-1-4832-3240-9",
        "publisher": "Academic Press",
        "publication_date": "1961",
        "pages": "283-359"
    }
]