Employing magma ocean crystallization models to constrain structure and composition of the lunar interior

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

A petrologic study on the effect of mantle overturn: Implications for evolution of the lunar interior

(2019) Ananya Mallik et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Melt–crystal density crossover in a deep magma ocean

(2019) Razvan Caracas et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Observational Constraint on the Radius and Oblateness of the Lunar Core‐Mantle Boundary

(2019) V. Viswanathan et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Solidification of lunar core from melting experiments on the Fe–Ni–S system

(2019) Jiachao Liu et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Experimental constraints on the solidification of a hydrous lunar magma ocean

(2019) Yanhao Lin et al.   METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE

Inefficient volatile loss from the Moon-forming disk: Reconciling the giant impact hypothesis and a wet Moon

(2018) Miki Nakajima et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

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

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

Fractional crystallization of the lunar magma ocean: Updating the dominant paradigm

(2018) J. F. Rapp et al.   METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE

Formation of anorthosite on the Moon through magma ocean fractional crystallization

(2017) Tatsuyuki Arai et al.   Geoscience Frontiers

New geochemical models of core formation in the Moon from metal–silicate partitioning of 15 siderophile elements

(2016) E.S. Steenstra et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

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

(2016) Yanhao Lin et al.   Nature Geoscience

Water in the Moon's interior: Truth and consequences

(2015) Erik H. Hauri et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Internal structure of the Moon inferred from Apollo seismic data and selenodetic data from GRAIL and LLR

(2015) Koji Matsumoto et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Lunar volatile depletion due to incomplete accretion within an impact-generated disk

(2015) Robin M. Canup et al.   Nature Geoscience

Toward a mineral physics reference model for the Moon’s core

(2015) Daniele Antonangeli et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Impact Origin of the Moon?

(2014) Erik Asphaug   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

A long-lived lunar dynamo powered by core crystallization

(2014) M. Laneuville et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Lunar core formation: New constraints from metal–silicate partitioning of siderophile elements

(2014) Nachiketa Rai et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Trace-element modelling of mare basalt parental melts: Implications for a heterogeneous lunar mantle

(2014) L.J. Hallis et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Strong tidal heating in an ultralow-viscosity zone at the core–mantle boundary of the Moon

(2014) Yuji Harada et al.   Nature Geoscience

Lunar bulk chemical composition: a post-Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory reassessment

(2014) G. J. Taylor et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Geochemical arguments for an Earth-like Moon-forming impactor

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

Density of Fe-3.5wt% C liquid at high pressure and temperature and the effect of carbon on the density of the molten iron

(2013) Yuta Shimoyama et al.   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

Constraint on the lunar core size from electromagnetic sounding based on magnetic field observations by an orbiting satellite

(2012) Hisayoshi Shimizu et al.   ICARUS

Density and porosity of the lunar crust from gravity and topography

(2012) Qian Huang et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

The proto-Earth as a significant source of lunar material

(2012) Junjun Zhang et al.   Nature Geoscience

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

Lunar Magma Ocean crystallization revisited: Bulk composition, early cumulate mineralogy, and the source regions of the highlands Mg-suite

(2011) Stephen M. Elardo et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Anorthosite formation by plagioclase flotation in ferrobasalt and implications for the lunar crust

(2011) Olivier Namur et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Very preliminary reference Moon model

(2011) Raphaël F. Garcia et al.   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

Seismic Detection of the Lunar Core

(2011) R. C. Weber et al.   SCIENCE

Compositions of Mercury's earliest crust from magma ocean models

(2009) Stephanie M. Brown et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS