UNDERSTANDING EARLY VOLCANISM ON THE TERRESTRIAL PLANETS: COMPARISON OF LUNAR CRYPTOMARE DEPOSITS AND INTERCRATER PLAINS ON MERCURY
WHITTEN, Jennifer L.1, HEAD, James W.2, PIETERS, Carle M.3, MURCHIE, Scott L.4, BLEWETT, David T.4, DENEVI, Brett W.4, NEUMANN, Gregory A.5, ZUBER, Maria T.6, SMITH, David E.6 and SOLOMON, Sean C.7, (1)Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, (2)Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, (3)Earth, Environmental, and Planetery Sciences, Brown University, Box 1846, Providence, RI 02912, (4)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD 20723, (5)Planetary Geodynamics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Mail Code 698, Greenbelt, MD 20771, (6)Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, (7)Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 5241 Broad Branch Rd. NW, Washington, DC 20015, Jennifer_Whitten@brown.edu, Jennifer_Whitten@brown.edu