The relative timing of Lunar Magma Ocean solidification and the Late Heavy Bombardment inferred from highly degraded impact basin structures

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Shunichi Kamata, Seiji Sugita, Yutaka Abe, Yoshiaki Ishihara, Yuji Harada, Tomokatsu Morota, Noriyuki Namiki, Takahiro Iwata, Hideo Hanada, Hiroshi Araki, Koji Matsumoto, Eiichi Tajika, Kiyoshi Kuramoto, Francis Nimmo

Icarus
doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2014.12.025
available online 2 January 2015

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