Lunar origin

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Ringwood, A. E., Kato, T., Hibbeson, W. Ware, N. (1991) Partitioning of Cr, V, and Mn between mantles and cores of differentiated planetesimals Implications for giant impact hypothesis of lunar origin. Icarus, 89,122-8. 

Warren P. H., Taylor J. G., and Keil K. (1983) Regolith breccia Allan HiUs A81005 evidence of lunar origin, and petrography of pristine and nonpristine clasts. Geophys. Res. Lett 10, 779-782. 

Either way, these Hf-W data provide very strong support for the giant-impact theory of lunar origin (Cameron and Benz, 1991). It is hard to explain how the Moon could have formed at such a late stage unless it was the result of a planetary... 

Hartmann W. K. and Davis D. R. (1975) Satellite-sized planetesimals and lunar origin. Icarus 24, 505-515. 

Wetherill G. W. (1986) Accumulation of the terrestrial planets and implications concerning lunar origin. In Origin of the Moon (eds. W. K. Hartmann, R. J. Phillips, and G. J. Taylor). Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, pp. 519-551. 

Warren P. H. (1992) Inheritance of silicate differentiation during lunar origin by giant impact. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 112, 101-116. 

Harrison D, Bumard P, Turner G (1999) Noble gas behaviour and composition in the mantle Constraints from the Iceland Plume. Earth Planet Sci Lett 171 199-207 Hartmaim WK, Davis DR (1975) Satellite-sized planetesimals and lunar origin. Icarus 24 504-515 Hayashi C, Nakazawa K, Mizuno H (1979) Earth s melting due to the blanketing effect of the primordial dense atmosphere. Earth Planet Sci Lett 43 22-28 HeUfrich GR, Wood BJ (2001) The Earth s mantle. Nature 412 501-507... 

The application of MOssbauer spectroscopy to silicate mineralogy has been well described in two papers by Bancroft et al, in which the influences of electronic configuration, oxidation state, and coordination symmetry of the iron cations were correlated firstly with silicates of known structures [212], and latterly with silicates of unknown and complex structures [213]. Most of the data discussed here are taken from these works, but references are given where appropriate to other data available. Silicate minerals of lunar origin are discussed on p. 294. 

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