期刊
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS
卷 126, 期 12, 页码 -出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2021JE006875
关键词
ocean tides; lunar orbit; Earth-Moon history; Earth rotation; plate tectonics
资金
- University of Michigan Associate Professor Support Fund - Margaret and Herman Sokol Faculty Awards
- National Science Foundation (NSF) [OCE0968783, OCE-1351837]
- NASA [NNX17AE42G, NNX17AH55G, 80NSSC20K1135, NNX16AH79G]
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P30097-N29]
- NSF [EAR-1947614]
- Harvard University
- UK's Natural Environment Research Council [NE/S009566/1]
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration [80NM0018D0004]
- NERC [NE/S009566/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- NASA [1002473, NNX16AH79G, 904102, NNX17AE42G] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P30097] Funding Source: Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
The study investigates the relationship between tides and factors such as Earth's rotation rate, lunar orbit, and inclination by integrating the Earth-Moon system backwards. It suggests that early Earth's ocean tidal energy dissipation rates may have exceeded today's rates, and tidal and core-mantle boundary dissipation within the Moon plays a significant role in the early evolution of the Earth-Moon system.
Tides and Earth-Moon system evolution are coupled over geological time. Tidal energy dissipation on Earth slows Earth ' s rotation rate, increases obliquity, lunar orbit semi-major axis and eccentricity, and decreases lunar inclination. Tidal and core-mantle boundary dissipation within the Moon decrease inclination, eccentricity and semi-major axis. Here we integrate the Earth-Moon system backwards for 4.5 Ga with orbital dynamics and explicit ocean tide models that are high-level (i.e., not idealized). To account for uncertain plate tectonic histories, we employ Monte Carlo simulations, with tidal energy dissipation rates (normalized relative to astronomical forcing parameters) randomly selected from ocean tide simulations with modern ocean basin geometry and with 55, 116, and 252 Ma reconstructed basin paleogeometries. The normalized dissipation rates depend upon basin geometry and Earth ' s rotation rate. Faster Earth rotation generally yields lower normalized dissipation rates. The Monte Carlo results provide a spread of possible early values for the Earth-Moon system parameters. Of consequence for ocean circulation and climate, absolute (un-normalized) ocean tidal energy dissipation rates on the early Earth may have exceeded today ' s rate due to a closer Moon. Prior to similar to 3 Ga, evolution of inclination and eccentricity is dominated by tidal and core-mantle boundary dissipation within the Moon, which yield high lunar orbit inclinations in the early Earth-Moon system. A drawback for our results is that the semi-major axis does not collapse to near-zero values at 4.5 Ga, as indicated by most lunar formation models. Additional processes, missing from our current efforts, are discussed as topics for future investigation.
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