月球上从初级到二级地形成的快速过渡由地幔翻转解释
Tabb C Prissel1, Nan Zhang2,3, Colin R M Jackson4
1NASA Johnson Space Center, Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Division, 2101 NASA Parkway, MailCode XI3, Houston, TX, 77058, USA. tabb.c.prissel@nasa.gov.
Nature communications
|August 17, 2023
概括
月球早期的地是由于地幔翻转而迅速形成的,而不是KREEP. 岩海洋积累中的引力不稳定性可能推动了这一过程,解释了二次地的形成.
科学领域:
- 行星科学 行星科学
- 地质物理学 地质物理学
- 地质化学 地质化学
背景情况:
- 月球地质年代学显示,在几千万年内,从初级地形成到二级地形成的快速过渡.
- 启动这种二级岩石的确切机制,特别是Mg-suite的形成,尚未完全理解,仍然是争论的主题.
研究的目的:
- 为了测试最早的二次月球地 (Mg-suite) 起源于密度驱动的地幔翻转的假设.
- 通过使用先进的3D地幔对流模型来量化由这种翻转引起的下层地幔融化的程度.
主要方法:
- 开发和应用模拟地幔对流的3D数值模型.
- 分析模型输出,以评估下层地幔融化程度及其与观测到的月球地特征的相关性.
主要成果:
- 建模表明,薄 (≤100公里) 含有伊尔梅尼特的积聚物翻转会引发下层地幔融化的快速,短暂的情节.
- 这种融化事件成功地解释了早期二级地 (Mg-suite) 的体积,地理时间和空间分布,而没有使用KREEP (,稀土元素,,放射性,) 作为能源.
- 全球分布的Mg-suite观测排除了1度翻转场景.
结论:
- 堆积堆的密度驱动的地幔翻转是启动月球上早期二级地形成的可行机制.
- 岩海洋累积层中的引力不稳定性被认为是地幔对流和随后在分化行星天体上形成的二级地的主要驱动因素.
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