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Magma oceans as a critical stage in the tectonic development of rocky planets
Laura Schaefer, Linda T. Elkins-Tanton
Magma oceans are a common result of the high degree of heating that occurs during planet formation. It is thought that almost all of the large rocky bodies in the Solar System went…
Water Partitioning in Planetary Embryos and Protoplanets with Magma Oceans
Masahiro Ikoma, Linda Elkins-Tanton, Keiko Hamano +1
The water content of magma oceans is widely accepted as a key factor that determines whether a terrestrial planet is habitable. Water ocean mass is determined as a result not only…
Highly Volcanic Exoplanets, Lava Worlds, and Magma Ocean Worlds: An Emerging Class of Dynamic Exoplanets of Significant Scientific Priority
Wade G. Henning, Joseph P. Renaud, Prabal Saxena +39
Highly volcanic exoplanets, which can be variously characterized as 'lava worlds', 'magma ocean worlds', or 'super-Ios' are high priority targets for investigation. The term 'lava…
Exoplanet Science Priorities from the Perspective of Internal and Surface Processes for Silicate and Ice Dominated Worlds
Wade G. Henning, Joseph P. Renaud, Avi M. Mandell +35
The geophysics of extrasolar planets is a scientific topic often regarded as standing largely beyond the reach of near-term observations. This reality in no way diminishes the cent…
Effect of Re-impacting Debris on the Solidification of the Lunar Magma Ocean
Viranga Perera, Alan P. Jackson, Linda T. Elkins-Tanton +1
Anorthosites that comprise the bulk of the lunar crust are believed to have formed during solidification of a Lunar Magma Ocean (LMO) in which these rocks would have floated to the…
The timeline of the Lunar bombardment - revisited
A. Morbidelli, D. Nesvorny, V. Laurenz +5
The timeline of the lunar bombardment in the first Gy of the Solar System remains unclear. Some basin-forming impacts occurred 3.9-3.7Gy ago. Many other basins formed before, but t…