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In this study, partially buried craters on the lunar maria and the northern smooth plains of Mercury were identified using recently acquired optical, elevation, and composition data, and lava flow thicknesses near partially buried craters were estimated by numerically modeling their topographic degradation. In Chapter 1, I first introduce the...

Partially buried craters on the Moon are those craters whose distal ejecta are covered by lava flows and where the crater rim crest still protrudes above the mare plain. Based on the difference in rim heights between a partially buried crater and an unburied crater, previous studies estimated the thicknesses of the lunar mare basalts. However,...