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A self-gravitating, elastic, spherical thick shell model is used to derive the present state of the lateral variations of density and stress differences within the lunar lithosphere. The model is allowed to deform under the load of an initial surface topography and internal density distribution, such that the resulting deformed body gives rise to the observed surface topography and gravity specified...
The compensation state of 49 intermediate size (120 to 600 km diameter) lunar craters are investigated using the most recent spherical harmonic models of the lunar topography and gravity, truncated at degree n=110. The total mass anomalies per unit area (i.e., the lateral variations of the vertically integrated density perturbations per unit area) within an otherwise uniform crust of 60 km thickness...
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