A two-billion-year history for the lunar dynamo
Magnetic studies of lunar rocks indicate that the Moon generated a core dynamo with surface field intensities of ~20 to 110 μT between at least 4.25 and 3.56 billion years ago (Ga). The field subsequently declined to <~4 μT by 3.19 Ga, but it has been unclear whether the dynamo had terminated by...
Main Authors: | Shuster, David L., Tikoo-Schantz, Sonia M, Suavet, Clement Romain, Wang, Huapei, Weiss, Benjamin P., Grove, Timothy L. |
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Other Authors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences |
Format: | Article |
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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2018
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113646 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3113-3415 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1676-3494 |
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