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PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE
卷 91, 期 -, 页码 101-106出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2013.11.010
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Moon; Impact melt differentiation; South Pole-Aitken basin
The stratigraphy of the South-Pole Aitken basin (SPA) interior is consistent with that of a massive impact melt sheet that differentiated to form cumulates. Spectroscopic and geophysical constraints on the stratigraphy of SPA suggest a similar to 12.5 km thick layer of norite above ultramafic pyroxenite and dunite layers. A similar stratigraphy is produced from differentiation by crystal settling of a similar to 50 km thick impact melt sheet (lunar impact melt sheets > 10 km thick likely undergo differentiation by crystal settling) formed by an oblique impact (and thus containing similar to 20 vol. % crustal material). We propose that impact melt differentiation can account for geophysical (nonzero crustal thickness) and geochemical (similar to 2 ppm Th) anomalies in SPA. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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