Crystallographic and Chronological Evidence for a Large Basin-Forming Lunar Impact at 4.33 Ga
Abstract
A 4.33 Ga baddeleyite in lunar troctolite 76535 records phase heritage of a high temperature (>2300 C) cubic-ZrO2 precursor suggestive of origin in impact melt.
- Publication:
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50th Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
- Pub Date:
- March 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019LPI....50.2787W