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University of Cambridge: ‘Slushy’ magma ocean led to formation of the Moon’s crust

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The scientists, from the University of Cambridge and the Ecole normale supérieure de Lyon, have proposed a new model of crystallisation, where crystals remained suspended in liquid magma over hundreds of millions of years as the lunar ‘slush’ froze and solidified. The results are reported in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. Over fifty years ago, […]