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

Lars E. Borg (), James N. Connelly, Maud Boyet and Richard W. Carlson
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Lars E. Borg: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
James N. Connelly: Centre for Star and Planet Formation, University of Copenhagen
Maud Boyet: Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans, UMR CNRS 6524, 5 rue Kessler
Richard W. Carlson: Carnegie Institution

Nature, 2011, vol. 477, issue 7362, 70-72

Abstract: Surprise date for lunar sample A new age determination for a Moon rock collected close to the site of the Apollo 16 lander has yielded a surprisingly young age of around 4,360 million years. This age would require either that the Moon solidified some 200 million years after the formation of the Solar System — significantly later than is assumed by most lunar formation models — or that the long-held theory that the Moon once had a primordial global magma ocean is flawed. In the latter case, much of the lunar crust could have been produced by non-magma-ocean processes, such as serial magmatism.

Date: 2011
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