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ANNUAL REVIEW OF EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCES
卷 51, 期 -, 页码 25-52出版社
ANNUAL REVIEWS
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-earth-031621-060538
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Moon; chronology; lunar magma ocean; giant impact; model ages
Defining the age of the Moon has been challenging due to the need for reliable dating of lunar samples using radiometric isotopic systems associated with planet formation. The crystallization of the magma ocean is the only event that meets this criterion, with ages around 4.35 billion years recorded in lunar rock types. This age is also observed in secondary crustal rocks, suggesting contemporaneous production during magma ocean crystallization and overturn.
Defining the age of the Moon has proven to be an elusive task because it requires reliably dating lunar samples using radiometric isotopic systems that record fractionation of parent and daughter elements during events that are petrologically associated with planet formation. Crystallization of the magma ocean is the only event that unambiguously meets this criterion because it probably occurred within tens of millions of years of Moon formation. There are three dateable crystallization products of the magma ocean: mafic mantle cumulates, felsic crustal cumulates, and latestage crystallization products known as urKREEP (uniform residuum K, rare earth elements, and P). Although ages for these materials in the literature span 200 million years, there is a preponderance of reliable ages around 4.35 billion years recorded in all three lunar rock types. This age is also observed in many secondary crustal rocks, indicating that they were produced contemporaneously (within uncertainty of the ages), possibly during crystallization and overturn of the magma ocean.
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