Large impact cratering during lunar magma ocean solidification

K. Miljković; M. A. Wieczorek; M. Laneuville; A. Nemchin; P. A. Bland; M. T. Zuber

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-25818-7

Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

Large impact cratering during lunar magma ocean solidification

K. Miljković,
M. A. Wieczorek,
M. Laneuville,
A. Nemchin,
P. A. Bland,
M. T. Zuber

Affiliations

K. Miljković: Curtin University, School of Earth and Planetary Science, Space Science and Technology Centre
M. A. Wieczorek: Université Côte d’Azur, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Laboratoire Lagrange
M. Laneuville: Earth-Life Science Institute
A. Nemchin: Curtin University, School of Earth and Planetary Science, Space Science and Technology Centre
P. A. Bland: Curtin University, School of Earth and Planetary Science, Space Science and Technology Centre
M. T. Zuber: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25818-7
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Lunar impact basins formed during the magma ocean solidification should have formed almost unidentifiable topographic and crustal thickness signatures, thus may escape detection. This result allows for a higher impact flux in the earliest epoch of Earth-Moon evolution.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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