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Impact-induced melting during accretion of the Earth
Jellie de Vries, Francis Nimmo, H. Jay Melosh +3
Because of the high energies involved, giant impacts that occur during planetary accretion cause large degrees of melting. The depth of melting in the target body after each collis…
astro-ph.EP2016
Oxygen isotopic evidence for vigorous mixing during the Moon-forming Giant Impact
Edward D. Young, Issaku E. Kohl, Paul H. Warren +3
Earth and Moon are shown here to be composed of oxygen isotope reservoirs that are indistinguishable, with a difference in Δ"17O of -1 +/- 5ppm (2se). Based on these data and our n…