The formation and evolution of the Moon’s crust inferred from the Sm-Nd isotopic systematics of highlands rocks

The timing of lunar solidification and mantle overturn recorded in ferroan anorthosite 62237

(2020) C.K. Sio et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Early crust building enhanced on the Moon’s nearside by mantle melting-point depression

(2020) Stephen M. Elardo et al.   Nature Geoscience

Geochemistry and Petrogenesis of Northwest Africa 10401: A New Type of the Mg‐Suite Rocks

(2020) Juliane Gross et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS

Evidence of extensive lunar crust formation in impact melt sheets 4,330 Myr ago

(2020) L. F. White et al.   Nature Astronomy

A long-lived magma ocean on a young Moon

(2020) M. Maurice et al.   Science Advances

The participation of ilmenite-bearing cumulates in lunar mantle overturn

(2019) Y. Zhao et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Timescale of overturn in a magma ocean cumulate

(2019) A. Morison et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Early Moon formation inferred from hafnium–tungsten systematics

(2019) Maxwell M. Thiemens et al.   Nature Geoscience

Isotopic evidence for a young lunar magma ocean

(2019) Lars E. Borg et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Geochronology of an Apollo 16 Clast Provides Evidence for a Basin‐Forming Impact 4.3 Billion Years Ago

(2019) N. E. Marks et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS

Timing of mantle overturn during magma ocean solidification

(2018) C.-E. Boukaré et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Chronology of martian breccia NWA 7034 and the formation of the martian crustal dichotomy

(2018) William S. Cassata et al.   Science Advances

Chronologic implications for slow cooling of troctolite 76535 and temporal relationships between the Mg-suite and the ferroan anorthosite suite

(2017) Lars E. Borg et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Early formation of the Moon 4.51 billion years ago

(2017) Melanie Barboni et al.   Science Advances

Formation of the lunar highlands Mg-suite as told by spinel

(2016) Tabb C. Prissel et al.   AMERICAN MINERALOGIST

Lead isotope evidence for a young formation age of the Earth–Moon system

(2016) J.N. Connelly et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Sm–Nd systematics of lunar ferroan anorthositic suite rocks: Constraints on lunar crust formation

(2015) Maud Boyet et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Paleotemperatures at the lunar surfaces from open system behavior of cosmogenic 38 Ar and radiogenic 40 Ar

(2015) David L. Shuster et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

The distribution of Mg-spinel across the Moon and constraints on crustal origin

(2014) C. M. Pieters et al.   AMERICAN MINERALOGIST

Origin of the lunar highlands Mg-suite: An integrated petrology, geochemistry, chronology, and remote sensing perspective

(2014) C. K. Shearer et al.   AMERICAN MINERALOGIST

Constraints on the formation age and evolution of the Moon from 142Nd–143Nd systematics of Apollo 12 basalts

(2014) Claire L. McLeod et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Lunar feldspathic meteorites: Constraints on the geology of the lunar highlands, and the origin of the lunar crust

(2014) Juliane Gross et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

A young solidification age for the lunar magma ocean

(2014) Amy M. Gaffney et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

A review of lunar chronology revealing a preponderance of 4.34-4.37 Ga ages

(2014) Lars E. Borg et al.   METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE

Rb-Sr, Sm-Nd and Lu-Hf isotope systematics of the lunar Mg-suite: the age of the lunar crust and its relation to the time of Moon formation

(2014) R. W. Carlson et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Isotopic evidence for chondritic Lu/Hf and Sm/Nd of the Moon

(2013) Peter Sprung et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Time Scales of Critical Events Around the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary

(2013) P. R. Renne et al.   SCIENCE

Chromite symplectites in Mg-suite troctolite 76535 as evidence for infiltration metasomatism of a lunar layered intrusion

(2012) Stephen M. Elardo et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

The lunar magma ocean: Reconciling the solidification process with lunar petrology and geochronology

(2011) Linda T. Elkins-Tanton et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Complex magmatic and impact history prior to 4.1Ga recorded in zircon from Apollo 17 South Massif aphanitic breccia 73235

(2011) M.L. Grange et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Response to the comment by W.H. Schwarz et al. on “Joint determination of 40K decay constants and 40Ar∗/40K for the Fish Canyon sanidine standard, and improved accuracy for 40Ar/39Ar geochronology” by P.R. Renne et al. (2010)

(2011) Paul R. Renne et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Origin of sulfide replacement textures in lunar breccias. Implications for vapor element transport in the lunar crust

(2011) C.K. Shearer et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Chronological evidence that the Moon is either young or did not have a global magma ocean

(2011) Lars E. Borg et al.   NATURE

Age of the Dakhleh impact event and implications for Middle Stone Age archeology in the Western Desert of Egypt

(2010) Paul R. Renne et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The comparative behavior of apatite-zircon U-Pb systems in Apollo 14 breccias: Implications for the thermal history of the Fra Mauro Formation

(2010) A. A. Nemchin et al.   METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE

Re-evaluating 142Nd/144Nd in lunar mare basalts with implications for the early evolution and bulk Sm/Nd of the Moon

(2009) Alan D. Brandon et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Thermal history recorded by the Apollo 17 impact melt breccia 73217

(2009) M.L. Grange et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Mechanisms for incompatible-element enrichment on the Moon deduced from the lunar basaltic meteorite Northwest Africa 032

(2009) Lars E. Borg et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

The pattern of Ni and Co abundances in lunar olivines

(2009) John Longhi et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Timing of crystallization of the lunar magma ocean constrained by the oldest zircon

(2009) A. Nemchin et al.   Nature Geoscience

The Lu–Hf and Sm–Nd isotopic composition of CHUR: Constraints from unequilibrated chondrites and implications for the bulk composition of terrestrial planets

(2008) Audrey Bouvier et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

A combined Sm–Nd, Rb–Sr, and U–Pb isotopic study of Mg-suite norite 78238: Further evidence for early differentiation of the Moon

(2008) J. Edmunson et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

SIMS U–Pb study of zircon from Apollo 14 and 17 breccias: Implications for the evolution of lunar KREEP

(2007) A.A. Nemchin et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA