Insights on the volcanic and impact histories of the lunar nearside from the petrology, geochemistry, and geochronology of the Calcalong Creek lunar regolith breccia meteoriteOPEN ACCESS 

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B. H. Oliveira, J. F. Snape, R. Tartèse, J. F. Pernet-Fisher, D. van Acken, M. J. Whitehouse, K. H. Joy MAPS, Version of Record online: 24 January 2025 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The Calcalong…

Large impact cratering during lunar magma ocean solidificationOPEN ACCESS 

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K. Miljković, M. A. Wieczorek, M. Laneuville, A. Nemchin, P. A. Bland & M. T. Zuber Nature Communications volume 12, Article number: 5433 (2021) LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The lunar cratering record is used…

Protracted volcanism after large impacts: evidence from the Sudbury impact basin

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Ubide, Teresa; Guyett, Paul C.; Kenny, Gavin G.; O’Sullivan, Edel M.; Ames, Doreen E.; Petrus, Joseph A.; Riggs, Nancy Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets Accepted manuscript online: 20 March 2017 LINK “Morphological studies of large…

Modeling the Historical Flux of Planetary ImpactorsOPEN ACCESS 

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David Nesvorny, Fernando Roig, William F. Bottke The Astronomical Journal, in press PDF (OPEN ACCESS) abstract “The impact cratering record of the Moon and the terrestrial planets provides important clues about the formation and evolution…

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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