A two-billion-year history for the lunar dynamo

Magnetic studies of lunar rocks indicate that the Moon generated a core dynamo with surface field intensities of ~20 to 110 μT between at least 4.25 and 3.56 billion years ago (Ga). The field subsequently declined to <~4 μT by 3.19 Ga, but it has been unclear whether the dynamo had terminated by...

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Main Authors: Shuster, David L. (Author), Tikoo-Schantz, Sonia M (Contributor), Weiss, Benjamin P (Contributor), Suavet, Clement Romain (Contributor), Wang, Huapei (Contributor), Grove, Timothy L (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2018-02-13T23:52:06Z.
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