Persistence and origin of the lunar core dynamo
The lifetime of the ancient lunar core dynamo has implications for its power source and the mechanism of field generation. Here, we report analyses of two 3.56-Gy-old mare basalts demonstrating that they were magnetized in a stable and surprisingly intense dynamo magnetic field of at least ∼13 μT. T...
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National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
2014
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/88244 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3113-3415 |