Sinking the Lunar Magma Ocean: New Evidence from Meteorites and the Return of Serial Magmatism
Abstract
Current understanding of lunar evolution is built on the lunar magma ocean hypothesis and the assumption that ferroan anorthosites are globally distributed. Anorthosites in lunar meteorites are inconsistent with a global lunar magma ocean.
- Publication:
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43rd Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
- Pub Date:
- March 2012
- Bibcode:
- 2012LPI....43.2306G