The lunar magma ocean: Reconciling the solidification process with lunar petrology and geochronology

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 304, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 326-336

  Elkins Tanton, Linda T ^a   Burgess, Seth ^a   Yin, Qing Zhu ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anorthosite; Geochronology; Magma ocean; Moon

Indexed keywords

ANORTHOSITE; CRUSTAL ROCKS; EARLY EARTH; MAGMA OCEAN; MANTLE COMPOSITION; PHYSICAL CONSTRAINTS; RADIOMETRIC DATES; SOLIDIFICATION PROCESS; SOURCE MATERIAL; STABLE PHASE; TIDAL HEATING; TIME-SCALES;

CRYSTALLIZATION; FELDSPAR; FLOTATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HEATING; OCEANOGRAPHY; PETROGRAPHY; PETROLOGY; SOLIDIFICATION; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

MOON;

ANORTHOSITE; CRYSTALLIZATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LUNAR MANTLE; MOON; PETROLOGY; PLAGIOCLASE; SOLIDIFICATION;

EID: 79953030651     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.02.004     Document Type: Article

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