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Stothers 1992

Stothers, R.B., 1992: Impacts and tectonism in Earth and Moon history of the past 3800 million years. Earth Moon Planets, 58, 145-152, doi:10.1007/BF00054651.

The Moon's surface, unlike the Earth's, displays a comparatively clear record of its past bombardment history for the last 3800 Myr, the time since active lunar tectonism under the massive pre-mare bombardment ended. From Baldwin's tabulation of estimated ages for a representative sample of large lunar craters younger than 3800 Ma, six major cratering episodes can be discerned. These six bombardment episodes, which must have affected the Earth too, appear to match in time the six major episodes of orogenic tectonism on Earth, despite typical resolution errors of ± Myr and the greater uncertainties of the two chronologies. Since more highly resolved events during the Cenozoic and Mesozoic Eras suggest the same correlation, it is possible that large impacts have influenced plate tectonics and other aspects of geologic history, perhaps by triggering flood basalt eruptions.

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@article{st07600n,
  author={Stothers, R. B.},
  title={Impacts and tectonism in Earth and Moon history of the past 3800 million years},
  year={1992},
  journal={Earth Moon Planets},
  volume={58},
  pages={145--152},
  doi={10.1007/BF00054651},
}

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TY  - JOUR
ID  - st07600n
AU  - Stothers, R. B.
PY  - 1992
TI  - Impacts and tectonism in Earth and Moon history of the past 3800 million years
JA  - Earth Moon Planets
VL  - 58
SP  - 145
EP  - 152
DO  - 10.1007/BF00054651
ER  -

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