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SUBMITTER: Maurice M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7351470 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science advances 20200710 28
A giant impact onto Earth led to the formation of the Moon, resulted in a lunar magma ocean (LMO), and initiated the last event of core segregation on Earth. However, the timing and temporal link of these events remain uncertain. Here, we demonstrate that the low thermal conductivity of the lunar crust combined with heat extraction by partial melting of deep cumulates undergoing convection results in an LMO solidification time scale of 150 to 200 million years. Combining this result with a cryst ...[more]