Age of a Lunar Anorthosite

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Jan 1972

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1972sci...175..428h&link_type=abstract

Science, Volume 175, Issue 4020, pp. 428-430

Physics

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The crystallization age of an Apollo 15 anorthosite rock, 15415,9, returned from the lunar highlands has been measured to be (4.09 ± 0.19) × 109 years. The primitive lunar crust must have been formed in the first 300 to 400 × 106 years. The results give some credence to the hypothesis that the primitive lunar surface was molten and large-scale fractional crystallization occurred in the early history of the moon.

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