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Megaregolith
Term coined by William K. Hartmann in 1973 to describe the lunar-wide zone of fragmented material developed on the Moon by mixing of impact basin/crater ejecta (transported by ballistic trajectories) and local rock. Estimates of the thickness of this mixed zone are between 1. 5 to about 2. 5 kilometers.
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