A lunar core dynamo limited to the Moon’s first ~140 million years

Abstract Single crystal paleointensity (SCP) reveals that the Moon lacked a long-lived core dynamo, though mysteries remain. An episodic dynamo, seemingly recorded by some Apollo basalts, is temporally and energetically problematic. We evaluate this enigma through study of ~3.7 billion-year-old (Ga)...

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Hlavní autoři: Tinghong Zhou, John A. Tarduno, Rory D. Cottrell, Clive R. Neal, Francis Nimmo, Eric G. Blackman, Mauricio Ibañez-Mejia
Médium: Článek
Jazyk:English
Vydáno: Nature Portfolio 2024-09-01
Edice:Communications Earth & Environment
On-line přístup:https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01551-z