магматски океан

магматски океан

Term used to describe the layer of magma, hundreds of kilometers thick; thought to have covered the Moon 4. 5 billion years ago. The timing, duration, cooling rates, convection, partial melting, lateral and vertical chemical variations, and overturn of the lunar magma ocean are topics of continuing research.

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