Persistence and origin of the lunar core dynamo

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 8453-8458

  Suavet, Clément ^a   Weiss, Benjamin P ^a   Cassata, William S ^b   Shuster, David L ^c,d   Gattacceca, Jérôme ^a,e   Chan, Lindsey ^f   Garrick Bethell, Ian ^f,g   Head, James W ^h   Grove, Timothy L ^a   Fuller, Michael D ⁱ  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

^h BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

High K mare basalts; Paleomagnetism

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CHRONOLOGY; ENERGY RESOURCE; LUNAR CORE DYNAMO; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; MEASUREMENT; MOON; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84878162665     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1300341110     Document Type: Article

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