The age of the Fra Mauro Formation: A radiometric older limit
Abstract
The internal Rb-Sr age of a 0.17 g basaltic clast from an Apollo 14 breccia is 4.15 ± 0.10 by. This limits the Imbrium event to not older than 4.25 by on current interpretations of lunar stratigraphy.
- Publication:
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Earth and Planetary Science Letters
- Pub Date:
- September 1971
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0012-821X(71)90054-9
- Bibcode:
- 1971E&PSL..12...55C