Two-billion-year-old volcanism on the Moon from Chang’e-5 basalts

Li, Qiuli; Zhou, Qin; Liu, Yu; Xiao, Zhiyong; Lin, Yangting; Li, Jinhua; Li, Jin-Hua; Ma, Hong-Xia; Tang, Guoqiang; Guo, Shun; Tang, Xu; Yuan, Jiangyan; Li, Jiao; Li, Jiao; Wu, Fu-Yuan; Ouyang, Ziyuan; Li, Chunlai; Li, Xian‐Hua

doi:10.1038/s41586-021-04100-2

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Two-billion-year-old volcanism on the Moon from Chang’e-5 basalts

Published in Nature • Oct 19, 2021

Authors:

Qiuli Li

Qin Zhou

Yu Liu

Abstract

Abstract The Moon has a magmatic and thermal history that is distinct from that of the terrestrial planets 1 . Radioisotope dating of lunar samples suggests that most lunar basaltic magmatism ceased by around 2.9–2.8 billion years ago (Ga) 2,3 , although younger basalts between 3 Ga and 1 Ga have be...

Subject

Basalt

Geology

Lunar mare

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