The onset of the lunar cataclysm as recorded in its ancient crater populations

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 325-326, Issue , 2012, Pages 27-38

  Marchi, Simone ^a,b,c   Bottke, William F ^b   Kring, David A ^c   Morbidelli, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^b Center for Lunar Origin and Evolution   (United States)

^c LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Lunar cataclysm; Solar system evolution; South Pole Aitken basin; The Moon

Indexed keywords

CRATER POPULATION; EARLY SOLAR SYSTEMS; GIANT PLANETS; IMPACTORS; LOW VELOCITIES; LUNAR CATACLYSM; SOLAR SYSTEM EVOLUTION; SOUTH POLE-AITKEN; SYSTEM EVOLUTION; TERRESTRIAL PLANETS; TIME INTERVAL;

GALLIUM; POLES;

MOON;

CRATER; MOON; PLANETARY EVOLUTION; SOLAR SYSTEM;

EID: 84857137274     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.01.021     Document Type: Article

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