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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| 格式: | Article |
| 語言: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2024-09-01
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| 叢編: | Communications Earth & Environment |
| 在線閱讀: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01551-z |