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Illusory Late Heavy Bombardments
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Significance: The vast majority of evidence marshaled for the Late Heavy Bombardment comes from 40 Ar/ 39 Ar age spectra of Apollo samples, interpreted through “plateau” ages, which show an apparent cluster at ∼3.9 Ga. Whether such data can be uniquely inverted to constrain impact histories in the Earth−Moon system has never been tested. We show that diffusive loss of 40 Ar from a monotonically declining impactor flux coupled with the early and episodic nature of lunar crust formation tends to create clustered distributions of apparent 40 Ar/ 39 Ar ages at ca. 3.9 Ga. Instead, these 40 Ar/ 39 Ar data can be reconciled with a continuously decreasing bollide flux. Thus, impacts may have played a minimal role in terrestrial habitability, early Earth dynamics, and the formation of Hadean zircons.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Boehnke, P., & Harrison, T. M.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2016-09-12
- Volume
- 113
- Issue
- 39
- Pages
- 10802-10806
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- PMC
- PMC5047187
- OpenAlex
- W2519355055
- Cited by
- 138
- References
- 98
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 22 · 2019: 20 · 2018: 13 · 2017: 13
- FWCI
- 7.11
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (EAR-0948724, EAR-1339051)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Space and Planetary Science › Astro and Planetary Science
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geochemistry and Petrology › Geological and Geochemical Analysis
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Space and Planetary Science › Planetary Science and Exploration
- Keywords
- Late Heavy Bombardment, plateau ages, argon diffusion, lunar impact history, Apollo samples, lunar magmatism
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