A sawtooth-like timeline for the first billion years of lunar bombardment

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 355-356, Issue , 2012, Pages 144-151

  Morbidelli, A ^a   Marchi, S ^a,b,c   Bottke, W F ^b   Kring, D A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

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

^c LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Impact basin formation; Late heavy bombardment; Lunar bombardment; Lunar cataclysm; Nectaris basin; South Pole Aitken

Indexed keywords

IMPACT BASINS; LATE HEAVY BOMBARDMENT; LUNAR BOMBARDMENT; LUNAR CATACLYSM; NECTARIS BASIN; SOUTH POLE-AITKEN;

DECAY (ORGANIC); POLES;

MOON;

CHRONOLOGY; CRATER; IMPACT; MOON; PLANETARY EVOLUTION; SIDEROPHILE ELEMENT;

EID: 84867119442     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.07.037     Document Type: Article

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