The crystallization age of an Apollo 15 anorthosite rock, 15415,9, returned from the lunar highlands has been measured to be 4.09 (plus or minus 0.19) b.y. The primitive lunar crust must have been formed in the first 300 to 400 m.y. The results give some credence to the hypothesis that the primitive lunar surface was molten and large-scale fractional crystallization occurred in the early history of the moon.


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    Titel :

    Age of a lunar anorthosite.


    Beteiligte:
    Husain, L. (Autor:in) / Schaeffer, O. A. (Autor:in) / Sutter, J. F. (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Science ; 175


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    28.01.1972


    Medientyp :

    Sonstige


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch


    Schlagwörter :


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