Die Geologie des Mondes

A summary of lunar geology. Light feldspathic rocks which constitute the highland areas are components of the primeval crust of the Moon. Dark pyroxeneand ilmenite-rich basaltic lava flows — resulting from partial melting processes in the lunar mantle — filled the Maria basins, 3.1–3.9 × 10⁹ years ago. Craters of all sizes and large circular basins were formed by impacting bodies from outside which produced the regolith blanket — a mass of comminuted rocks with fragments of impact breccias, impact melt glasses and impact melt rocks.