High stress shallow moonquakes - Evidence for an initially totally molten moon

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Jul 1985

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985e%26psl..74..149b&link_type=abstract

Earth and Planetary Science Letters (ISSN 0012-821X), vol. 74, no. 2-3, July 1985, p. 149-154. DFG-supported research.

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Lunar Crust, Magma, Moonquakes, Liquid Phases, Stress Analysis, Thermoelasticity, Moon, Stress, Depth, Moonquakes, Calculations, Models, Highlands, Crust, Seismicity, Compression, Thermal Properties

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Thermoelastic stress calculations show that if the moon was initially molten only in the outer few hundred kilometers, as in the magma ocean model of the moon, the highlands crust should be aseismic. In contrast, if the moon was initially totally molten, high stress (1 to more than about 3 kbar), shallow (0 to about 6 km deep), compressional moonquakes should be occurring in the highlands crust. Calculations of the minimum stress drops made for the 28 observed shallow moonquakes suggest that 3 of them probably have stress drops in the kbar range. Thus, these very limited seismic data are consistent with the model that the moon was initially totally molten.

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