Formation of the Lunar Primary Crust From a Long‐Lived Slushy Magma Ocean

A mushy Earth's mantle for more than 500 Myr after the magma ocean solidification

(2020) J Monteux et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

A long-lived magma ocean on a young Moon

(2020) M. Maurice et al.   Science Advances

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

(2020) Lars E. Borg et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Early Moon formation inferred from hafnium–tungsten systematics

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

Analysis of lunar samples: Implications for planet formation and evolution

(2019) Richard W. Carlson   SCIENCE

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

Crystallization of the lunar magma ocean and the primordial mantle-crust differentiation of the Moon

(2018) Bernard Charlier et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Scaling laws of convection for cooling planets in a stagnant lid regime

(2018) Mélanie Thiriet et al.   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

Evidence for an early wet Moon from experimental crystallization of the lunar magma ocean

(2016) Yanhao Lin et al.   Nature Geoscience

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

The formation of pure anorthosite on the Moon

(2014) Danielle Piskorz et al.   ICARUS

Heterogeneity in lunar anorthosite meteorites: implications for the lunar magma ocean model

(2014) S. S. Russell et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

A new model of lunar crust: asymmetry in crustal composition and evolution

(2014) Tomoko Arai et al.   EARTH PLANETS AND SPACE

Thermal evolution of an early magma ocean in interaction with the atmosphere

(2013) T. Lebrun et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS

Heat transfer in plagioclase feldspars

(2012) J. M. Branlund et al.   AMERICAN MINERALOGIST

Magma Oceans in the Inner Solar System

(2012) Linda T. Elkins-Tanton   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Crystals stirred up: 2. Numerical insights into the formation of the earliest crust on the Moon

(2012) Jenny Suckale et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Asymmetric crustal growth on the Moon indicated by primitive farside highland materials

(2012) Makiko Ohtake et al.   Nature Geoscience

Making the Moon from a Fast-Spinning Earth: A Giant Impact Followed by Resonant Despinning

(2012) M. Cuk et al.   SCIENCE

The Crust of the Moon as Seen by GRAIL

(2012) M. A. Wieczorek et al.   SCIENCE

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

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

(2011) Lars E. Borg et al.   NATURE

Cr-spinel Seam Petrogenesis in the Rum Layered Suite, NW Scotland: Cumulate Assimilation and in situ Crystallization in a Deforming Crystal Mush

(2010) Brian O’Driscoll et al.   JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY

A young Moon-forming giant impact at 70-110 million years accompanied by late-stage mixing, core formation and degassing of the Earth

(2008) A. N Halliday   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES