On the Thermal Evolution of the Terrestrial Planets

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Mar 1974

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1974moon....9..211f&link_type=abstract

The Moon, Volume 9, Issue 1-2, pp. 211-218

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Physical and chemical constraints for such different planetary objects as the Earth, the Moon and meteorite parent bodies can best be satisfied by thermal history models having high initial temperatures. On the basis of thermal calculations it is suggested that the evolution of the other terrestrial planets (Mars, Venus and Mercury) was also characterized by high initial temperatures. Under these conditions, melting and, consequently, fractionation would set in at an early stage. Because of the resulting redistribution of the long-lived radioactive heat sources and the concentration of these elements in the surface layers, large-scale differentiation could be achieved by partial melting.

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