Timing of crystallization of the lunar magma ocean constrained by the oldest zircon
The Moon is thought to have formed through the consolidationof debris from the collision of a Mars-sized body with the Earthmore than 4,500 million years ago. The primitive Moon wascovered with a thick layer of melt known as the lunar magmaocean1, the crystallization of which resulted in the Moon?ss...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
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Nature Publishing Group, Macmillan Publishers Ltd
2009
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| Online Access: | http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v2/n2/full/ngeo417.html http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/44375 |